Our Lady Of Lourdes Podcast

​Homily #1 -Advent is a new beginning. You might not have woken up today and thought of this, but today for you as a Christian, today is New Year's Day.... Advent is a season of hope, and what Christians do during Advent is they look to the time that Christ returned to make all things as they should be, and then towards the end of Advent, we start looking back at the time that He first broke into this world. But the theme that runs throughout Advent is that God wants to make all things new. -Fr. Brian -God wants to make you new. What if you believe that? What if this Advent, over the next four weeks, you were utterly convinced that God could make you new? What would that look like? -Fr. Brian Homily #2 -kerygma (Greek) - the basic Gospel message -The good news of Christianity is not that you got your act together and so God decided to love you. That is not what Christianity is. That's not good news. -Fr. Brian -Simply Good News by N.T. Wright -John Muir (b. 1838 - d. 1914), Scottish-born American natural