Dear Catholic Online Community and Catholic Online School students.
I AM HAPPY TO OFFER EACH OF YOU AN INVITATION TO SUNDAY MASS ON THE THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT in the Catholic Diocese of Tyler. The response to offering these beautiful liturgies has been overwhelming. The readings, as always, offer so much for us to reflect on. It is helpful to pray through them and reflect upon them before we go to Mass.
On this Third Sunday, all Roman Catholic clergy will wear Rose, a color that symbolizes Joy. This Sunday of Advent is called Gaudete Sunday. The Latin word is an exhortation calling us all to rejoice, because the coming of the Lord is growing closer.
gun give it to him, come on. ainsley: another grinch story. there is this family in minnesota attachment saint anthony minnesota. rep put up a bunch of christmas lights outside. they got an anonymous letter telling her. this this is what the letter said. the idea of twinkling colorful lights are a reminder of derisions that continue to run through our society. a reminder of systemic biases against our neighbors who don t celebrate christmas or who can t afford it put up lights of their own. we must do work of educating ourselves and about the harmful impact and outward facing display like yours can have. rachel, i will let you react. steve: always anonymous. this is the joyless secular word that they want to us live. in ruin every holiday. started with halloween, thanksgiving. they especially hate christmas because obviously there is a lot of christian joy being spread during this time of year. it s terrible, by the way, to the woke santa, santa has been
picking up the great theme of the last half of the pun tiff cat of john paul ii talking about the new evangelism and a church recovering the sense of missionary fervor. who pope francis is reminding us is that oftentimes example invites people to consider the gospel more than lecture. and he s summoning all of us as maria said to be the exemplars of christian joy, compassion, christian truth telling and in doing that to bring others into the community of faith fly s the word joy again. george weigel, it is always a joy to have you. thank you very much. we ve been watching as george is speaking live pictures where the pope has emerged and as if to thank all of the many adults and children who have spent the long