Caritas Advent Reflection
Let us just take a moment this Advent to reflect on how many times we see news images of pregnant migrant women crossing deserts or getting off unsafe boats, with no home to go to.
Can we imagine ourselves being on their journey or on Joseph and Mary’s migrant journey to Bethlehem? The town was not equipped to welcome or accommodate them. It could not offer the care a pregnant woman needed. The Holy Family was one family too many for this small place.
Can we put ourselves in the shoes of the shepherds who went to visit the Christ child? They were uneducated outcasts in their society and yet the angels appeared to them, not to a rich landowner, and said, “Do not be afraid.”
News and events from across the diocese
HOPE: Prayers and reflections for the first week of Advent
A Reflection and Prayer on the theme of HOPE by Fiona Hutchings, chaplain at St Boniface School. I have always found November a challenging month as the days get shorter and darker and we focus on praying for those who have died and remembering especially those...
A Reflection For The First Sunday Of Advent By Monsignor Robert Draper
Sunday 3rd December First Sunday of Advent Is 63:16-17; 64:1, 3-8 Ps79 1Cor 1:3-9 Mk 13:33-37 The origin of the word human comes through Latin from the word for earth or soil. So when Isaiah says: “You are the potter, we are the clay” he is being accurate as well as...
A video message for Advent from our Diocesan Administrator Canon Paul Cummins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb3kgbINCL0&feature=youtu.be
