I'm very busy for the next few weeks, so I will re-publish some posts from last advent, dealing with the amazing writings of Fr. Alfred Delp....here goes....
[The following was originally posted on November 29, 2015.]
There is an INCREDIBLE book by Ignatius Press, compilations of Fr. Alfred Delp, martyr under the Nazis, entitled Advent of the Heart: Seasonal Sermons & Prison Writings, 1941-1944. It takes us week by week through Advent....and believe me, with this book, you will not be the same person when you arrive at the creche on Christmas Day. I will be posting some quotes from this book throughout Advent. No better time than today to begin. Here are excerpts from Fr. Delp's "Homily for the First Sunday of Advent Preached in Munich, November 28, 1943" (remember the words you are about to read, this man was killed for).....
"There is nothing more blessed in life than true waiting."
"Man is truly human only when he transcends himself."
"We should discover life and its fundamental order."
"This should be our first Advent light: to understand everything, all that happens to us and all that threatens us, from the perspective of life's character of waiting."
"God enters only His own rooms, where someone is always keeping watch for Him."
"Other values of secondary importance impose themselves, making life inauthentic and bringing it under an alien law and an alien paradigm."
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