Advent begins this Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010. Advent deserves our prayerful attention – our prayerful preparation, and expectation, and our embrace.
Let us worship our Lord.
Thomas
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- One Example Among Many – WYD 2023
- A Life of Holiness
- Jesuit Wisdom from the 1600’s, True for Today
- What to “give up” for Lent?
- We Must Not Lose the Traditional Latin Mass!
- From Its Chamber, the Whirlwind and Cold – The Bomb Cyclone of 2022
- The Call to Holiness has Escalated
- The Book of Revelation Was Written For Times Like These!
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- How Do We Get Home, From Here?
- God does NOT give Charisms to All the Baptized! (He does give all that is needed.)
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- A Dystopia of Insanity
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- precious words in silence heard…
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- On the Interior Life – Dom Chautard
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- Reevaluating Time Schedules
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- What is Happening, America?
- Foundations of Marian Devotion in the Early Church
- On Faith: Wisdom from Fr. Lallemant, S.J.
- The Cross: Wisdom from Fr. Lallemant, SJ
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- Our Need for Prayer
- Sanity At Last re: “transgendered children”
- Maintenance to Mission -Title in Search of Reality
- Praying Scripture – Lectio Divina (part I)
- The Interior Life, and Martha and Mary
- Church, Will You Awaken Even Now?
- Great Blessings in the Catholic Faith
- Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
- America: Is This One Last Chance?
- A Catholic Program for Change
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- How Should A Christian Vote?
- The Last American Election?
- We Need The Holy Spirit!
- A Campaign Speech Worth Hearing…
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- When God Dies
- Seeking the “Still Small Voice” of God
- Catholics: It is Time to Awaken!
- Public Restrooms and Public Insanity
- The Great Banquet – Pope Francis: Phase II
- A Presidential Election Like No Other
- Thoughts in this time of Lent
- What Time Is It?
- Second HPR Article on The Our Father
- The State of my Soul
- Let Us Pray! Really.
- Reflections Upon A Coming Election
- When Law Is Made By The Lawless
- “Unreal Nation” – Concerning a Nation in Denial
- Being Present to Holy Worship
- Bishops Standing Firm
- Yes, He Is A Priest
- The Church is Shrinking; the Faith is in Decline
- Diagnosis of the Heart – Parable of the Sower Part 1
- Diagnosis of the Heart: Parable of the Sower Part 2
- Collapse of Faith in Ireland; Lesson for America
- Reparation: Freely Suffering for the Good of Another
- Acedia: Spiritual Sloth and the Church of Laodicea, USA
- Waiting Vessels…
- Why Catholics Need to have their Marriage Witnessed in the Catholic Church
- Going Beyond “Rediscover Catholicism,” Part I
- Going Beyond “Rediscover Catholicism”, Part II
- Radical Islam and a Bankrupt West
- Update on a Call to Desert Hermitage… Mark Byerly
- The Kerygma
- Maternal Martyrdom
- The Choice to End Freedom
- Righteousness in a Culture of the Lawless
- HPR Article: Lest They Receive It in Vain
- Pilgrimage of Penance, Prayer and Sacrifice
- As For Me and My House….
- Can A Catholic Receive Grace In Vain?
- Contraception, Priesthood and Sexual Abuse (1 & 2)
- Eucharist Is Not “Cannibalism”!
- Trinity Sunday and Mary
- Adam – Where are you?
- Priesthood and the Call to Holiness
- Finding Jesus in the Catholic Church
- Men of Lawlessness
- Lenten Reflection: Discipleship in Christ – the School of Love
- The Natural Moral Law
- Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, or Death, Servitude and the Flight from Truth?
- “It is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.”
- My Parish is a Business?
- Catholics! Some of the Members are Wandering Away!
- Prayer is a Gift Intended to Grow
- Grow in Christ, Marriage and Prayer
- Three Temptations to Spiritual Immaturity
- What Happens to a Church When the Members Won’t Grow Up?
- The Quiet Light of Reverence, and Witness for Christ
- Stifle the mother…
- Thoughts Following a Recent Mass: Catholics Need to Learn to Pray
- Friendship with God in Christ
- Church as Babysitter in a Culture of Death
- On Knowing Him: On Koinonia with Christ
- Watching America Die Before Our Eyes
- Losing One’s Rootedness – Or Not
- The Sacrament of the Moment
- “Every Day is Newtown in America” – Dcn Ed Peitler
- The “Munus Regendi” of the Priest and the Vocation of the Laity
- Prior to Adult Formation, One Thing is Necessary
- Crying in the Desert for a New Evangelization
- Counterfeited Catholic Social Justice equals Social Disaster
- Bishops and Preaching
- Election in America: God works all to the good…
- 2016 – Obama’s America and the Debts of the Church
- Where are the Half-Way Houses for Catholic Evangelization?
- Faith in the “Year of Faith”
- New Blog – “Court of the Gentiles”
- Thoughts after the Republican Convention
- A Contemplative Spirit
- The Dangerous “New-speak” of Modern Progressives – A Catholic Call to Action
- A Plea for Really Committing to Adult Faith Formation
- An Inert Laity – Crucial Misstep to Religious Irrelevance
- An Inert Laity – The Cure
- Mission and Ministry: The World Outside the Parish
- Now available at Amazon.com – The Interior Liturgy of the Our Father – in paperback
- Taking Time to Prayerfully Listen
- The Mass in movements – Conversion Consecration Communion
- Pope Benedict on Adult Formation
- Election Time: A Novena of Rosaries, in Prayer for this Country!
- It’s Time to Wake Up! Re-Evangelization Part I
- Re-Evangelization, Part II
- Building a Nation on Quicksand?
- The Immaculate Conception and Consecration to Jesus through Mary
- Suffering with Patience, in Innocence
- Advent – 2011
- Thanks, On This Thanksgiving Day
- Religion: “No,” Relationship: “Yes”?
- The Straight Way to Jesus
- Take Up The Rosary Once Again – Pope John Paul II
- The Cleansing Power of Grief
- A secular issue worth thinking about: Reform of Congress
- Boredom at Mass
- The Church and the Economic Train-Wreck
- Why Do Catholics Like Celebrity-Saints?
- The Christian Family Today: Trinity Sunday
- Encountering Christ in Holy Scripture with Lectio Divina
- Truth, Goodness, Beauty
- Auschwitz – A School of Holiness
- But It Shall Not Be So Among You
- Art as Parable
- Digital Spirituality
- When the Son of Man Comes…
- The Enmity Among Us
- Prayer and the Four Pillars of the Faith
- The Holy Vocation of Catechist
- The Cheapening of Precious Life
- Is your church spreading the Gospel?
- Advent Thoughts: He is Coming, but before Him, Trials
- A Beautiful Song of Advent
- Bishops and Priests – Listen to Your Pope!
- Fellowship of Consecrated Artists
- What if God were one of us?
- Remembering 9-11
- Republicans: Do Not Neglect the Cultural Agenda!
- Against the Idolatry of Certitude: Learning to Listen
- Silence and Potency, Sterility and Noise
- The Raincloud is Coming
- Dialogue in the Wilderness
- Holy Mass: Re-Creation or Recreation?
- On Homosexual Marriage
- Proposal for a Parish Adult Formation Program
- The Importance of Reverence in the Church
- The One Thing Necessary
- On the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima
- How Close Is the Day?
- Contraception: A Cancer in Marriage
- Deadly Lukewarmness and Apathetic Disciples
- Lukewarm Souls and the Divine Mercy Novena
- Former Catholics and Anti-Catholic Fervor
- Thoughts in the Wilderness
- Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi – Tragedies and THE Tragedy
- The Church Needs the Mission of the Members
- The World Needs the Mission of the Church
- Lectio Divina and Praying Scripture
- Ruins of an Old Church – photography as prophecy
- In the Waiting Room
- What Then is the Church to Do?
- Consecration to Life in a Culture of Death
- The Church and the World
- Final Trial of the Church?
- What “to give up” for Lent?
- What “to give up” for Lent?
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Dear Thomas,
Thank you so much for posting this hymn to help us, especially in our preparation for Advent. How we need silence in order to enter more deeply into the Mysteries of the Incarnation and the Eucharist! May Our Lady and St. Joseph intercede for us, that like them we may prepare well for the special coming of Jesus at Christmas, and for His daily coming into the silence of our hearts.
By: Deborah on November 23, 2010
at 7:38 am
That was beautiful, Thomas. In this very stressful time in my life, you have reminded me that I must relax and ponder the coming of Christ our Lord. With Him, all things are possible.
By: Theresa on November 23, 2010
at 10:27 am
BEAUTIFUL WORDS! WHAT A MESSAGE. MAY CHRIST BE THE KING OF ALL OF OUR LIVES! BLESSED BE GOD FOREVER.
By: Vickie on November 23, 2010
at 5:00 pm