In the studio this week to discuss the readings for The Second Sunday of Ordinary Time are Fr. Gabriel Gillen, OP, and Fr. Bruno M. Shah, OP. “Word to Life” airs every Friday on The Catholic Channel, Sirius XM 129 at 12 pm (EST).
In this episode of Word to Life, Fr. Gabriel Gillen, O.P. and Fr. Bruno Shah, O.P. discuss the readings for the Third Sunday of Advent. (photo by Fr. Gillen taken outside the Sirius XM Radio headquarters in Manhattan.)
Each week, a Dominican member of the Provincial Preaching Advisory board prepares this Preacher’s Sketchbook in anticipation of the upcoming Sunday Mass. The idea of the Preacher’s Sketchbook is to take quotations from the authority of the Church–the Pope, the Fathers of the Church, documents of the Councils, the saints–that can help spark ideas for the Sunday homily. Just as an artist’s sketchbook preserves ideas for later elaboration, so we hope the Preacher’s Sketchbook will provide some ideas for homiletical elaboration.
Sketchbook
Pope Benedict XVI, Homily for Vespers of the First Sunday of Advent (2008)
Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in it the whole Church is called to become hope, for herself and for the world. The whole organism of the Mystical Body acquires, so to speak, the “colour” of hope. The whole People of God continue on their journey, attracted by this mystery: that our God is “the God who comes” and calls us to go to meet him. How? In the first place in that universal form of hope and expectation which is prayer, which is eminently expressed in the Psalms, human words in which God himself has placed and continually places the invocation of his coming on the lips and in the hearts of believers.