
Sunday Homily, December 21, 2025
As we move through the closing days of Advent, we keep in mind the call we have to make room for Jesus to enter more deeply into our hearts and lives.

As we move through the closing days of Advent, we keep in mind the call we have to make room for Jesus to enter more deeply into our hearts and lives.

This Sunday, being the Third Sunday of Advent, is referred to as Gaudete Sunday. “Gaudete” means “Rejoice!” We rejoice that Christmas is coming!

May we hold onto hope and not give in to apathy or despair.

Christ does not seek to control us but to lead us into trusting His love for us and being willing to love each other and the world.

When we reflect on the love God has for us from the Cross, and thus our commandment to love others, it is harder for us to be deceived by false prophets.

May we be the Church God calls us to be.

“Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, because I came down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me."

“I tell you, the latter went home justified, not the former; for whoever exalts himself shall be humbled, and the one who humbles himself shall be exalted.”

“How long, not long. For the moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
Gratitude is such an important part of being Christian and of having peace in one’s heart.