1st Sunday of Advent | GARDEN MASS Redemptorist Publications | 1 December 2024

[@gailebsworth3453]

Thank you, again your words hit the mark.

[@DenisMcBride-ey3dh]

Many thanks, Gail, and delighted that the words spoke to you.

[@mattvolta1]

Blessed for Baby Kallistos 🙏🏼 . Hands are full now 😊 . Thank you Fr Denis for a Wonderful Mass.

[@DenisMcBride-ey3dh]

Thanks sincerely, Matt, for your blessing for Kallistos. Much appreciated by us all.

[@AliceTheresa88]

A blessed Advent Sunday to everyone! Thank you once again, dear Fr. Denis, Alessandro, Giselle, Paul, Cosmo and Kallistos (who certainly looks like Cosmo when he was at that age!) for this beautiful indoor Garden Mass. Congratulations on the new Sunday Missal, too! Thank you for the lovely homily on looking back with much kindness, strong in the faith of God's healing mercy, and on looking forward with much hope that we may not face it alone. Advent indeed gives us time to pause, a breather, to look at the year that had gone by. Thank you too, for the poem "Advent Calendar" by Rowan Williams, which still gives me goosebumps when I hear it recited.

[@DenisMcBride-ey3dh]

Many thanks, Alice, as always for your kindness and support. Yes, it is great that we managed to get the Sunday Missal out on time - today, the 1st of Advent, is when it begins so it is a privilege to use our own product. Yes, I always do a wee review of the year at the beginning of Advent - and then wonder what I am looking forward to in the near future. Not sure where the world will be this time next year, but I pray it will be a more peaceful and kinder place.

[@AliceTheresa88]

@DenisMcBride-ey3dh 🙏🙏🙏