It's Beginning to Look Alot Like Christmas...!

+JMJ

Dear Friends & Family,

Here at Seminary, the decoration are up, and our last week of classes are coming to an end!  It's hard to believe how fast time flies here!  With all the hustle and bustle and final exams approaching rapidly, let us reflect on the true meaning of the season, the anticipated arrival of  our Lord Jesus Christ!

Memory Awakens Hope. . . . . . . . . Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Seek That Which Is Above,1986

     "Advent is concerned with that very connection between memory and hope which is so necessary to man. Advent’s intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became a child. This is a healing memory; it brings hope. The purpose of the Church’s year is continually to rehearse her great history of memories, to awaken the heart’s memory so that it can discern the star of hope.…
     It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope."