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    07 Dec 2025 – 2nd Sunday in Advent, A

    December 7 2025
    Thara Benedicta
    Key Message: Real repentance leads to real change!! Homily: Teacher: What do you want for Christmas? Child: I want to become a good child, so that I can become a friend of the child Jesus. Saint John the Baptist is also teaching us this, in an easy way - "Become good, so that you can become a friend of Jesus". He also did come in majestic kingly robes. He was not exactly the guy you’d expect to prepare the way for Jesus. He wasn’t polished or political. He lived in the wilderness, wore camel hair, and ate locusts. But he had a fire from God. He was not saying to do hard stuff. He was saying, "Get ready to meet God by repenting and living a just life. For God is coming to you". Till the first Christmas, God was seen either in mountain tops, or in a burning bush or in the wind or in the temple. That is why many religions in the world still see God in nature. So God sent John the Baptist to tell the people that He is coming to them and to prepare them to enjoy Him. Sometimes we think spiritual preparation to welcome the baby Jesus means repentance. And repentance means 'just feeling sorry for our sins in the confession box'. But it is not only about feeling bad for our sins inside the confession box, it's about turning around. It means living the way our Lord Jesus wants us to live in our daily life. John tells us that Jesus is coming to baptize not just with water, but with the Holy Spirit and with fire. That fire isn’t to destroy us, it's to purify us and to show us the will of God and enable us to work in the will of God. So we can stop settling for surface-level Christianity. We can live our life deeply with our Lord Jesus. Quick steps to prepare for the coming of our baby Jesus into our hearts: 1. Spend time with God every morning. Just 15–30 minutes of quiet time can change your whole day. 2. Ask the Holy Spirit to show you anything that’s keeping you from growing. He’s gentle, but honest. 3. Make a real choice to let go of things that don’t belong in your life anymore like rudeness, offense, fear, bitterness, jealousy. 4. Be willing to change. God can’t transform what you’re not willing to surrender. When you make a resolution to change, take any one challenge you were willing to change for a long time. If you are yet to think about it, just think about it now. You are the best person to introspect yourself, because there is no ego involved. Take a spiritual goal and work on it for the whole of the Christmas season. If you’ve been rude, ask God to help you be kind. If you’ve been stuck in comparison, ask God to help you celebrate others. If you’ve been lukewarm, ask for that fire of the Holy Spirit to burn again. Ask and it shall be given to you. You cannot change yourself unless God helps you to change. So work with God to be His friend.
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    Brendan Hoban: Media frenzy in Carey case was distasteful     

    November 25 2025
    M G-B
    Ron Rolheiser says the "Christ movement is downward, free from the tyranny of ambition and achievement." He asks: "Are we emptying ourselves and assuming the powerlessness of the poor?"
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    Vatican News: Petrocchi Commission says no to female diaconate, though judgment not definitive

    December 4 2025
    Soline Humbert
    "This conclusion is a disappointing failure of courage, synodality, and pastoral leadership. At a moment when the global Church is in urgent need of reform and renewal, particularly on the role of women in the Church, the commission’s report reflects an institutional reluctance to engage fully with both the historical evidence and the current pastoral needs of the People of God as well as an unwillingness to listen to the Holy Spirit speaking through the experiences of women and the Synod process." From FUTURE CHURCH Press release Full text: https://preview.mailerlite.com/q4y2a5j6n1/2892487390843115754/r9r2/
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    Joe O’Leary: Thoughts on Christ the King, 23 November 2025

    November 23 2025
    Sean O'Conaill
    I am not well-enough read in St Augustine to pronounce on that, but the phrase 'merely symbolic' raises a question about our understanding of what symbols are and how they actually 'work' - i.e. how they communicate. What I mean is that if one is saying 'the Eucharist is just a symbol' one is already 'outside' the experience, even the 'reality', that the words 'this is my body' were intended to convey - i.e. that Jesus is lovingly in this and every moment giving himself completely to and for us. Similarly, what would be the the point of everyone gathering around an altar if at that moment everyone is thinking 'this is just a symbolic exercise' - distancing themselves from the only good reason for being there in the first place? Doesn't our own 'real presence' demand that we enter fully into the realness of God's presence both in the consecrated host and the gathered assembly - and are NOT at that moment thinking 'this is just a symbolic exercise'? I suppose I am asking if the phrases 'merely symbolic' or 'just a symbol' make any sense.
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