Sunday 30th November 2014
1 st Sunday of Advent Ordinariate Mass at Hockley, 10.30 am. Celebrant & Preacher, Fr. Bob White A reflection for this Sunday by my friend, Dr.Scott Hahn: http://www.salvationhistory.com Watch For Him Readings: Isaiah 63:16-17 , 19 Psalm 80:2-3 , 15-16 , 18-19 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 Mark 13:33-37 The new Church year begins with a plea for God’s visitation. “Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,” the prophet Isaiah cries in today’s First Reading. In today’s Psalm, too, we hear the anguished voice of Israel, imploring God to look down from His heavenly throne - to save and shepherd His people. Today’s readings are relatively brief. Their language and “message” are deceptively simple. But we should take note of the serious mood and penitential aspect of the Liturgy today - as the people of Israel recognize their sinfulness, their failures to keep God’s covenant, their inability to save themselves. And in this Advent season, we