Chapter Talk – First Sunday of Advent – November 29, 2020, cycle-B “Is longing not a voice? It is indeed, and a very powerful one” (Song of Songs, #74, p.87). With these words from St. Bernard, we enter Advent, a time when the veil covering our longing falls away, and we hold this longing as […]

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