Bridget Galbraith sent me a link to a published homily that she thought I might like to share here. It is a very powerful piece of writing, one I needed to read and I'm sure a lot of people need to hear. The site is called LittleMoreTracts and a link to the homily can be found at the bottom of the exerpt. Reading this has recommitted me to making confession and penance a large part of my Advent devotions.
"Advent is great season of spiritual awakening. Advent tries to rouse us from our slumber, our spiritual laziness, to prepare ourselves not just for Christmas, His first coming, but even more importantly for Christ’s final coming and for our personal judgement, for the moment in which our place in God’s Kingdom will be set for all eternity. St Paul speaks positively when he says “our salvation is closer than we first accepted the faith.” Surely our salvation is what we are living for if we are believers, even if weak believers. Surely salvation is our genuine hope if we believe in Christ and are truly grateful for His death on our behalf! Yet we run a risk of falling away from that promise if we are willing to do only the minimum to hold on to it. How often Christ said that from those who are willing to do the minimum, like the man who buried the one talent in the parable, we may lose it all, that the little we have may be taken away from us. "
Read the entire homily here.
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