GOOD NEWS: Jesus is Returning!! We say this in each Creed, but every Advent we especially renew our hope in this. The first two weeks of Advent, the readings and prayers stir our hopes, not for an annual feast, but for the great return of Christ at the end of time—the Parousia, the Second Coming. Early on, the Church saw the opportunity to use this season to stir up this hope, which we recite every week: “He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead.” We have

JESUS SON OF DAVID, HAVE PITY ON ME!! In last Sunday’s Gospel, amidst the noisy, pushing crowd, his disability, and his poverty, this is what the blind man called out. He was fixed on Jesus above all these things. He was MINDFUL, to use a word in vogue right now, of only Jesus. May we act that way, in all things and above all things. Please notice that Mr. Ken Morr, our school principal, is now writing a weekly column in the bulletin. We’ve talked about this for a long t