Advent season preparation - Week 1

During this Advent season, we might want to find one person we have had trouble forgiving and ask for the grace to forgive that person. Forgiveness from the heart is a great healer.

As Dale O'Leary states in the readings from the Magnificat Advent Companion: "We are told to forgive our brothers from our heart, yet many say the words (found in the Our Father) 'Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us,' and then in almost the next breath say, 'I will never forgive.' They don't understand that building one's emotional life on unforgiveness is like building on sand."

Let us pray for each other as we await the coming of the Christ Child. God bless!!