Minute Meditations

Advent is a season of waiting. The Scriptures fill us with hope, based on the promises of God.

Restoration of sight is an important biblical metaphor. Isaiah uses it as a sign of God’s transformation of the world.

John the Baptist takes center stage in the Gospels in all three Lectionary cycles on the Second and Third Sundays of Advent.

Mission is the theme in many Gospel stories. Jesus tours towns and villages, proclaiming God’s heavenly reign.

It’s well known that St. Nicholas, a sixth-century bishop, is behind our use of the secular “icon” of Christmas, Santa Claus.

Our Scriptures today play with the same imagery: the “Rock” who is our God.