Happy New Year? That’s right. The Church begins its new Liturgical Year on the First Sunday of Advent (not Jan. 1). Each year, the Church celebrates this 4-week preparatory season in order to focus our minds and hearts on the upcoming celebration of the Incarnation, God becoming like us. With the end of the semester looming, we as Catholics are celebrating a beginning. There will not be a giant ball dropping on the Salameno Center to celebrate this, but there are new changes happening within the Church. As we begin this new liturgical year and welcome the New Roman Missal, we look forward to what the Lord has in store for us—it is far better than anything we could have in mind!
An Advent Poem from Bl. John Henry NewmanThey watch for Christ
who have a sensitive, eager, apprehensive mind,
who are awake, alive, quick-sighted,
zealous in seeking and honoring Him,
who look out for Him in all that happens, and
who would not be surprised,
who would not be over-agitated or overwhelmed,
if they found that he was coming at once . . .
This then is to watch:
to be detached from what is present, and
to live in the thought of Christ as He came once,
and as He will come again;
to desire His second coming, from our affectionate
and grateful remembrance of His first.
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