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December 13, 2020

Chapter Talk – Third Sunday of Advent – December 13, 2020, cycle-B We are given hopeful and evocative images from the first reading for this Third Sunday of Advent: “In my God is the joy of my soul” (Is 61:10). Well, why? What elicits this burst of joy? “For God has robed me with a […]

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