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Morning Offering: 11. 30. 25 First Advent

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Today’s Reflection: First Advent 

As the days grow shorter and the nights become colder,
we look for signs of hope during this Advent Season.
There is hope in the evergreens that brave the snow.
There is hope in children’s hearts as they look forward to Christmas.
There is hope as more candles are lit on the Advent Wreath.
But the greatest hope is the promise: “You are to conceive
and bear a son and you are to name him Jesus. He will be
great and be called Son of the Most High.”  – Advent Reflection

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Morning Offering: 12. 22. 24

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Today’s Reflection (Fourth Sunday of Advent): Incarnation

We tried in so many ways
to communicate our love.
If communication is not
what you say but
what people hear,
then what we said
was warped and wrenched
into distancing prescriptions
that had no heart.

You asked for food.
We sent manna.
You asked for drink.
Water flowed from the rock.
You asked for directions.
Moses brought the law.
And on and on.
Still you grew
more distant,
more deaf,
more blind.
Memories dulled.
Speech slurred.
Dreams dissolved
into wander dust.

And so we did
what families do
when confronted
with calamity.
We drew straws.
Shorty lost.
He came to share
your plight,
your fight,
your night,
and point you
toward tomorrow. — Michael Moynahan, S.J.

Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.

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Morning Offering: 12. 17. 24

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Today’s Reflection  Lord, we can be a stubborn people. Thank you for your guidance, your teachings, your patience, and your love, for your faithfulness despite our failures to listen and love. Open our ears this Advent to your Word and open our hearts to your Son who again is coming into our lives; help us to get ready to follow Jesus back to you. Amen. — Bill Lipscomb 

Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.

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Morning Offering: 12. 08. 24

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Today’s Reflection (Second Sunday of Advent):  The Light of the Candles 

Come Lord of us all,
stir up the darkness.
We light just one candle
to keep us awake.

Come Lord of nature,
wise and just ruler.
The light of two candles
shows us how to live.

Come Lord of our life.
Deserts are greening.
The light of three candles
show that you are near.

Come Son of David,
he who was promised.
By four candles’ brightness
the true king will come.  — Sue Allerton/CAFOD

Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.

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Morning Offering: 12. 24. 23

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Today’s Reflection: Fourth Sunday of Advent –  O Emmanuel,

you are our King and Judge,

the One whom the peoples await and their Saviour.

O come and save us, Lord our God.

Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich, who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.

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Morning Offering: 12. 03. 23

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Today’s Reflection: First Sunday of Advent – At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving others with God’s own love and concern. — St. Teresa of Calcutta

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Morning Offering: 12. 18. 22

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Today’s Reflection: Fourth Sunday of Advent — Come, Lord Jesus, come. — Advent prayer.
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Morning Offering: 12. 11. 22

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Today’s Reflection: Third Sunday of Advent — Long is our winter,
Dark is our night;
Come, set us free,
O Saving Light.—15th century German hymn.
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich, who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.
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Morning Offering: 12. 04. 22

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Today’s Reflection: Second Sunday of Advent — Advent is primarily about the coming of God, and only in a secondary way about asking, seeking, waiting and longing. There is hope, because we are unconditionally loved, whatever may be our failures, our tepidity, or our secret despair. The word “Come” is a bearer of mystery.— Maria Boulding, The Coming of God.
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.
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Morning Offering: 11. 27. 22

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Today’s Reflection: First Sunday of Advent – Advent is a quiet contemplative time of waiting for the Light that will come and shine on us Christmas Day, rescuing us from the great darkness and hopelessness we experience in our daily lives. Advent then is a very special season of hope that links the coming of the promised Messiah in Jesus with the coming of Christ into our own hearts after a period of preparation, and with the coming of Christ again at the end of time. — Brother Victoire-Antoine D’Avila-Latourrette, A Monastic Year.
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich, who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.
Morning Offering is posted by 8 a. m.