Advent IV — Sign

“Ask a sign from the Lord,” said the prophet to the king. St Edith Stein reminds us that by our lives and witness, we are called to be a sign in our day: “Surrender without reservation to the Lord who has called us.”

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Advent I — Let us go up

In "The Spiritual Canticle," St John of the Cross writes, “let us go forth to behold ourselves in your beauty to the mountain and to the hill,” which is to “knowledge in the divine Word, who in his height is signified here by the mountain.” Here we share excerpts from the Saint's powerful commentary.

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Advent IV, 2021 — Blessed

When I read in the Gospel “that Mary went in haste to the hill country of Judea” to perform her loving service for her cousin Elizabeth, I imagine her passing by so beautiful, so calm and so majestic

Advent II, 2021 — Vision

And if I rejoice, Lord, in the hope of seeing you, yet seeing I can lose you doubles my sorrow. Living in such fear and hoping as I hope, I die because I do not die.

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