Msgr. Anselm Nwaorgu

READINGS: 4th Sunday of Advent On this fourth Sunday of Advent and as we celebrate Christmas, the gospel reading tells the Story of how our Blessed Mother, Mary, came to conceive Jesus; an unknown, nonimportant, unrecognized, slightest thought of, and a nobody village girl from an obscure village called Bethlehem; a village considered to be too small to be among the clans of Judah. Yet, from her was to be conceived and to give birth to the King of kings, Emmanuel, the Savior

READINGS: 3rd Sunday of Advent My dear friends, we are already into the third week of Advent, and Christmas is upon us. So, this is a good time to catch a breath if we have not already done so, to ask some basic questions about this life God has given to us. Who am I? Who is God for me? What does life on earth mean? Am I happy with where I am in life? Am I happy with where I am with God? Am I happy with where I am with others?” What sort of person ought I to be? With all the.

READINGS: 2nd Sunday of Advent Saturday, December 8th, is the celebration of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a day we celebrate Our Blessed Mother as conceived without Original Sin. The declaration of this solemnity was inspired by the 1830 apparitions of Our Blessed Virgin Mary to St. Catherine Laboure in France. Catherine was a novice (studying to become a Nun) in the Religious community of the Daughters of Charity in Paris. On the nig

READINGS: First Sunday of Advent This Sunday is the first Sunday of Advent; the beginning of a new liturgical year, and the first of the four Sundays preceding Christmas. Advent is the time that we prayerfully remember the first coming of Christ, His birth, while being ready for his second coming, judgment day. The gospel (Mark 13:33-37) therefore urges us: “Be watchful! Be alert! You do not know when the time will come…May he not come suddenly and find you sleeping.” A good