An Advent Message 2008

MY DEAR CHRISTIANS, this season of Advent, in the year of our Lord 2008, let us with one heart walk together in faith and good will and rediscover again the one hope that lay in the message of peace which is central to the joy at the heart of every Christmas season.

Let us with glad anticipation take this advent journey together as one Church of the baptized who walk in the darkness of this world by the light of Christ and endeavor to learn in the love of our Lord, the substance of His peace, that we may hope again with each other the hope of our Lord in each of us that we may be as one as He and the Father are one - if not one tradition, my dear Christian, if we are not yet ready to be the one Church of Jesus Christ in the world, then let us be as one heart, one love, one peace, one hope, one way, one promise, one liturgy of life.

Starting this Sunday, November 30, the first Sunday of Advent, through to December 25, Christmas Day, we shall begin a series of meditations on the peace which is the central message of the Christmas season.

This invitation is for all Christians who believe with force of faith in the one ineffable Name of the one triune Perfection - the Most Holy Trinity, the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit, the Incarnate Word of God, our Lord Jesus Christ and the hope that is intrinsic to the salvific mission of the one Savior of humankind; who are baptized forever into eternal covenant with God and the great family of God, who desire to pray and watch together, to learn to heal together, to learn to mend together, to learn to hope together, to learn to be together and to learn to live the change that we shall try to find in ourselves along the way so that we may begin to see the difference that makes us belong to each other in Christ infinitely more than the divides that keep us apart in sin and in war.
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Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.