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Advent
DAVID WARREN
The point of Advent (which begins the new Christian liturgical year, and itself begins today) is threefold, as I understand it.

Advent Dynamism
FR. ROGER LANDRY
Happy New Year! This week the Church, indeed, inaugurates a new year dedicated to our reliving in time the central mysteries of the life of Christ. Christ is the the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end (Rv 22:13), and the Church has us begin each year focusing both on the end and on the beginning so that we might better live the present.

Advent Dynamism
REV. ROGER J. LANDRY
Happy New Year! I say it again: Happy New Year! Sometimes Catholics find it a little strange that in the Church, New Years Day is today, rather than about a month from now.

Engaging Advent
FATHER GEORGE W. RUTLER
T.S. Eliot belabored the obvious in saying, Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Advent 1944
BRAD MINER
The "assassin" was dropped behind "enemy" lines.

Suffering Advent
DALE AHLQUIST
At the risk of sounding like Scrooge, I fully intend to shoot Rudolph and mount his head, red nose and all, over my mantelpiece this holiday season.

Advent Grace
FATHER ALFRED DELP, S.J.
Unless we have been shocked to our depths at ourselves and the things we are capable of, as well as at the failings of humanity as a whole, we cannot possibly understand the full import of Advent.

Following Mary's Advent Footsteps
FR. ROGER J. LANDRY
Each year, on the fourth Sunday of Advent, the Church has us focus on the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The End of Advent
JOSEPH BOTTUM
Christmas has devoured Advent, gobbled it up with the turkey giblets and the goblets of seasonal ale.

An Advent Meditation
SAINT JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN
Men sometimes ask, Why need they profess religion?  Why need they go to church? 

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