ADVENT 2024

What are we waiting for?

 

Dear Friends in Christ,

“Advent” means “coming.”  

In the four weeks leading up to Christmas, we can prepare to celebrate properly the wonderful feast of Christmas: the first coming of the Son of God into our broken world to begin to change our sorrows into joy.

It is also a time to look forward to the day when he will come again, with just and merciful judgment, to fulfil his promise of a new creation.

And yet, he is already among us, already building his Kingdom, even though he is unrecognised by many. We can look for him now in the community that bears his name, his Church. He is among us in the poor and afflicted and accompanies us in our works for peace and justice.

What are we waiting for? Let’s look for him today: pray; read the Bible; come to Confession and Mass; and go out to do good for others.

The better we celebrate Advent, the more deeply we’ll celebrate Christmas.

+Michael McKenna
Bishop of Bathurst