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Third Sunday in Advent B
December 17, 2017
Spirituality of the Readings

John Foley, SJ

Holy Darkness

The Baptist said. I am only pointing you toward the light. It will be here soon. Hold my arm till he comes. Have you and I found his arm to hold onto?

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In Exile

Ron Rolheiser

The Mystical Body

What’s deepest inside of life is not visible to the naked eye. Thus, for example, Therese of Lisieux, with her highly-tuned mystical sense, understood her hidden life in a monastery as a part of the immune-system inside the body of Christ. Without ever leaving the small town of Lisieux she touched the lives of millions.

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Glancing Thoughts

Eleonore Stump

Joy in the Lord

As the winter dark and cold encroach on our days, and the birth of the baby Jesus draws near, the problem is that, for many people, this is a time of depression, not of joy.

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The Perspective of Justice

Gerald Darring

Rejoice in the Lord, Always!

Jesus comes so that our community might no longer be scarred with poverty and oppression but might instead “be preserved whole and entire, spirit, soul, and body.”

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Discussion Questions

Anne Osdieck

Despite Delays

If you can’t get away to help in Puerto Rico or it’s too dangerous to go to the Sudan, what can you do for the poor, the brokenhearted, the prisoners or captives in your own area?

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A Poem to Sit With

J. Janda

Winter Weather     

I walk into doors

and run into parking meters

remembering him

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