ADVENT PENANCE SERVICES AND CHRISTMAS RECONCILIATION............

If "tis the season to be jolly", as Advent days build toward the season of Christmas, then our joy and jolliness must be authentically anchored in the true meaning and purpose of Advent and Christmas : reconciliation, renewal, and redemption, for Humankind with the Divine Trinity of God.  A sincere and serious preparation for sharing in and celebrating the Incarnation of Jesus The Christ, and His Coming in History in the Nativity, necessitates putting the home of our hearts in proper order.  Attendance and participation in an Advent Penance Service and celebrating a sacramental Confession with the absolution of our Sins, is an important part of experiencing the reason for the season as a Faith centered, God Made Man, transformative event in our Salvation.  Sacred Heart Parish here in Eat Sacramento is holding its Advent Penance Service tomorrow night at 7 p.m., which Monsignor Robert Walton has invited me to join in.  I will also be assisting him over the next week and a half with Confessions for the students of Sacred Heart Parish School, both ofwhich I am very glad to be able to do.  I share this as an invitation to my Catholic-Christian blog readers, to set your hearts and minds to celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation yourselves this Advent-Christmastime, as you seek to truly discover the most important jolliness of all - the joy  and peace of being united with the Coming of Christ Jesus the Lord, Born into our lives this Christmas and Forever............tdp