Sunday 29th November 2015
ADVENT SUNDAY 11 am. Solemn Mass at St John Fisher-Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission Celebrant & Preacher: The Ordinary-The Rt. Rev.Keith Newton. Heads Up: Scott Hahn Reflects on the First Sunday of Advent Visit: https://stpaulcenter.com Download Audio File Readings: Jeremiah 33:14-16 Psalm 25:4-5 , 8-10 , 14 1 Thessalonians 3:12-4:2 Luke 21:25-28 , 34-36 Every Advent, the Liturgy of the Word gives our sense of time a reorientation. There’s a deliberate tension in the next four weeks’ readings - between promise and fulfillment, expectation and deliverance, between looking forward and looking back. In today’s First Reading, the prophet Jeremiah focuses our gaze on the promise God made to David, some 1,000 years before Christ. God says through the prophet that He will fulfill this promise by raising up a “just shoot,” a righteous offspring of David, who will rule Israel in justice (see 2 Samuel 7:16 ; Jeremiah 33:17 ; Psal