Wednesday’s Wink from Above 12/10/2025 Homily Cycle II – Offered at OLPH for Salesian Saturday 12/06/2025

 

Our Readings [today] remind us that in Advent there is meaning in the moment, there is meaning in our coming together. “We encounter God only in the now. In the Eucharist, the past & the future are joined to the present moment.” [Fr. Barry Strong, OSFS] de Sales reminds us, “… we are spiritually fickle and really do not know what we want.” [Advent Sermon, Dec. 6, 1620, 2nd Sunday of Advent, p.17] Advent a time for introspection & penance founded on Hope.

Fulton sheen wrote in The Seven Virtues “The virtue of Hope … is centered in the will [&] … can only ever be founded on the merciful, faithful actions of God.” [Finding Hope in a Broken World, Derek Rotty 11/12/2025, Word on fire].

This Advent choose one or two of the Seven Salesian Virtues to make your Advent extraordinary:

1. Endure Patiently

2. See the Bright Side

3. Show Good Humor

4. Stay cheerfully Excusing

5. Put on a Good Face

6. Be Appreciative

7. Speak Gently and Show Courtesy

We are pilgrims on a journey, one often in darkness, we can choose a Salesian Virtue[s] to help us prepare to Celebrate the Light of Christ on Christmas day and every day thereafter. That choice will strengthen our Hope in God’s mercy and faithfulness.

May God Be Praised.

Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/120625.cfm

Wednesday’s Wink from Above - Advent Season of Hope 12/03/2025.

 

Advent is a season of Hope as we reflect on the darkness ever present in our world let’s join & pray, “As an eagle incites its nestlings forth by hovering over its brood, So he spread his wings to receive them and bore them up on his pinions.” [Psalm 92]

The TV show “Mission Impossible” began with a tape recording, “Your mission, should choose to accept it ….”

The tape recording ended with this warning “As always, should you or and of your IMF force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions.”

Our mission as Christians is to live the Gospel Message, an impossible Mission. No, actually a challenging one; one filled with great joy and peace, yet opposed by the forces of evil, of indifference and the lure of unbridled materialism.

Jesus will never disavow knowledge of us, and He will celebrate our discipleship.

 

Accept your Mission as a follow of Jesus Christ and when you Mission is completed here on earth Jesus will “bear you up on His pinions,” greet you, thank you for your life on earth as His disciple, take you into the Glory of God for all eternity.

May the Hope of Advent 2025 fill you heart, your mind & your soul.

 

May God Be Praised.