Watch! "The Times they are Changin"

 

Advent, the short-shrift liturgical season in which we await for the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus, announce the beginning of His public ministry and prepare for His coming for us when we pass and at the end of time, brings us hope and joy for the future.  This year, though we are still in the calendar year of 2020, it is especially important because we need something to get us out the morass of so many changes that have brought fear, confusion, sadness, depression and a way of life that challenges who we are as Catholic disciples of Jesus.

Striving to be a Saint

My closest physical encounter to a named saint by the Roman Catholic Church was Saint Pope John Paul II when he visited in September of 1987 at St. Vibiana Cathedral in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.  He was walking down the nave to leave the church after he talked to representatives of the local parishes and I was standing on a pew with a camera trying to get a picture from three feet away as he passed but slipped and never got the picture.  So much for saintliness on my part.