God Is With Us:

In taking on our human nature, Jesus has ensured that, indeed, God will always be with us. Find a way today to make God’s presence more real to someone in your life.

God’s Will – Faith:

In today’s Gospel, Mary was confronted with a dilemma: to choose God’s Will that would endanger her life or to say “No” to God. She felt much fear, yet she eventually trusted God deeply enough to say “Yes” When we are faced with difficult decisions, do we rely more on God or on our own abilities?

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Advent is nothing other than annual meditation on the work of salvation and sanctification, the work of grace and love, which the Lord 'began' and continually 'begins' in every man and in every generation down to the coming of Jesus Christ, when this shall be brought to completion.

- Pope John Paul II

I know they will laugh at me. They will think me a fool, proud, mad, etc.….I can do without all the rest if I have Him. Fear not for me, nor for those who will join me. God will look after us all. He will be with us.

—Mother Teresa