The holy season of Advent has arrived and so has a new liturgical year as well. Advent encompasses the four Sundays and weekdays leading up to the celebration of Christmas. The season of Advent is a time of preparation that directs our hearts and minds to the anniversary of the Lord’s birth as well as to His second coming at the end of time. (click message for more)
The Feast of Christ the King which we celebrate this weekend was instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925 to celebrate the Jubilee Year. He desired to reassert the sovereignty of Christ and His Church over all forms of government and to remind Christians of the fidelity they owed to Christ, who by His Incarnation and death on the Cross made them both adopted children of God and future citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven. (click message for more)