LOVE: What is Love?
LOVE. We’ve been on a journey. Over the past three weeks, we’ve journeyed through the season of Advent. On the first week of our journey, we lit the first candle of the Advent wreath and meditated on the theme, “HOPE”….
LOVE. We’ve been on a journey. Over the past three weeks, we’ve journeyed through the season of Advent. On the first week of our journey, we lit the first candle of the Advent wreath and meditated on the theme, “HOPE”….
These words came to me during morning prayers: I need to BELIEVE again. I need to TRUST again. I need to HAVE FAITH again. I need to LIVE again. I need to LOVE again. When trials and tribulations come, when…
Happiness says, “I need signs!”. Joy says, “No signs needed”.
JOY. On this, the third week in Advent, we light the third candle of the Advent wreath – the pink, or rose, candle. And, we celebrate the third Sunday that preceeds the third week in Advent as “gaudete”, or “rejoice”,…
You’re hurting. I hear you. This is a particularly difficult time of the year for many. It’s tough when, in the midst of the festivities, we feel we must put on a happy face and hide the pain, the tears,…
Can anyone guess what the theme of the third Sunday in Advent is? Published in Piae Cantiones, a collection of Finnish and Swedish sacred songs, in 1582, Gaudete, Latin for “Rejoice!”, is a sacred Christmas song. “The Latin text is…