"In a very real sense, the Christian community lives in Advent all the time. It can well be called the Time Between, because the people of God live in the time between the first coming of Christ, incognito in the stable in Bethlehem, and his second coming, in glory, to judge the living and the dead.... Advent contains within itself the crucial balance of the now and the not-yet that our faith requires." Fleming Rutledge, Advent: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ
The Presence of the Lord - Rev. Chris Currie | 11.26.23
We must become actual members of a real community constituted by the real and present image of God as uniquely lord, and the real and present image of mankind as subject uniquely to God. Jesus Christ, very God and very man, is the double-representative around whom such a community has come into being. - Oliver O'Donovan, Common Objects of Love
God's Promise Renewed - Rev. Ryan McCormick | 11.19.23
"It is not enough to leave Egypt, one must also enter the Promised Land." - St. John Chrysostom, 4th Century Archbishop of Constantinople (cited in Thomas Merton, Contemplative Prayer)