Posts from December 2025

The word “patient” is repeated several times in the very short reading from St. James’ letter (5:7-10), which is the second reading for the Third Sunday of Advent. True patience is required while waiting for the coming of the Lord.In our age of instant gratification, genuine patience has become a foreign, practically obsolete concept that we, as believers, ought to recover. It is patience that is lived out with firmness of heart. It is patience that is continuously tested by our imperfections…

We shall try to pick up the relevance of the message given us for this 2nd Sunday of Advent. In poetic form, the reading from Isaiah (11:1-10) describes for us God’s dream about creating a new world free of devastation, grief, divisions, strife, tears and death. This dream is about a world better than the original one which he had created at the beginning of time, with the Garden of Eden in it, before sin ruined everything. It is a…