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"#Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope for its self and for the world." - Pope Benedi...ct XVI Make sure you visit our advent website for videos, reflections, and all other resources this season! slmedia.org/advent

Happy Feast Day Saint Juan Diego 1474-1548 Feast day: December 9 Patronage: America and Natives... Saint Juan Diego was an indigenous Mexican who embraced the Catholic faith, spread by the Spanish friars, that came with Cortez. On December 9th, 1531, Our Lady appeared to him on Tepeyac Hill (Guadalupe), as he was going to Mass, asking for a church to be built on that spot. After convincing the skeptical Bishop of the authenticity of the apparition, through Mary’s miraculous image on his tilma (cloak) and Castillian roses spilling out when he opened the tilma, the Bishop had the church built. Thousands of conversions occurred, when the tilma, with Our Lady’s image on it, was processed through Mexico City. St. Juan Diego spent the rest of his life as the caretaker of the tilma and telling the story of the apparition. The tilma can be seen today in the basilica in Mexico City. https://www.portraitsofsaints.com/search See more

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Immaculate Mary Have you a favourite hymn to honour Our Blessed Lady: Hail, Holy Queen, Enthroned Above? Hail Mary, full of grace? Salve Regina? Immaculate Ma...ry? Or maybe Luke’s gospel story of the Annunciation is your favourite story of preparation as we hear the Angel Gabriel say to Mary: Greetings, favoured one! The Lord is with you You will conceive and bear a son The Holy Spirit will come upon you To which Mary responds Here am I, the servant of the Lord Father Pat Fitzpatrick C.S.Sp. See more

Happy Feast Day Saint Cecilia 2nd century Feast Day: November 22 Patronage: Church music, great musicians, poets, France... Cecilia's parents arranged for her to be married to Valerian of Trastevere. Because she was focused above, she is said to have interiorly sung to Jesus while her wedding music was playing. This marked the beginning of her association with music in the Church. Through her influence, her husband and his brother were converted. After they were martyred, Cecilia was martyred for refusing to partake in idol worship. She is remembered in the Canon of the Mass. https://www.portraitsofsaints.com/search See more

Pray very honestly, therefore, that you may begin to see the practical reasons for the Church's crying out in the desert world, and even into your own interior soul and heart: "Prepare ye the way of the Lord: Make straight in the wilderness His paths; Every valley shall be exalted; Every mountain and hill shall be made low; And the crooked shall be made straight; And the rough ways plain" (Is. 40:3, 4). Then shall you see the salvation of God! Excerpted from Our Way to the Father by Rev. Leo M. Krenz, S.J.