An Advent Challenge

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Friends, Happy New Year's Day! We come today to the beginning of a liturgical year—the first Sunday of Advent. There is a sort of a permanent Advent quality, a vigil quality, to the Christian life. We are waiting, watching; we want something we don't fully have. And as we prepare for the coming of the Lord, our Adventchallenge is this: What is our “highest mountain”? Where do we offer worship? If it is not the mountain of the Lord—if we have fallen into a spiritual sleep—now is the time to wake up and stay awake, to get our lives in order, to stop making excuses.

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0:00.0	Peace be with you and happy New Year's Day.
0:03.0	We come today to the beginning of the liturgical year,
0:06.4	the first Sunday of Advent.
0:09.6	What is about Advent?
0:10.6	I've always loved it.
0:12.1	To me, it's a very spiritually powerful season.
0:14.5	And it might be because there's sort of a permanent Advent
0:18.2	quality to the Christian life.
0:20.7	Adventus, the coming of the Lord.
0:23.3	He came in time, it's true,
0:25.6	and he's coming into our hearts now,
0:27.3	but also we're longing for his coming at the end of time.
0:31.8	That means all of Christian history,
0:33.4	now over 2,000 years is going to go on,
0:36.0	who knows how much longer.
0:38.1	There's always a visual quality to it.
0:40.4	We're waiting, we're watching.
0:43.7	A something unfulfilled about this life.
0:46.7	We want something we don't fully have.
0:49.6	And I think the Advent season calls all this to mind,
0:53.7	brings all this to consciousness.
0:56.3	And these readings for the first Sunday of Advent,
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