Monsignor Lavalley wraps up his Advent mission at Holy Name of Jesus parish. Evening 3. He offers thoughts on St. Peter, a broken church, and us. "Are you broken? Are you broken?” he asks. “St. Therese says, ‘That's where the sun comes in. That's where the Son comes in.’”
Monsignor Lavalley continues his Advent retreat. Evening 2. "A college student once asked me, 'Father, if you learned that the Eucharist was just a symbol, would it change your life?' And, I said, 'change my life? It would absolutely devastate me - because I would have to adjust to the fact that God loves me less than I thought."
He is near – An Advent retreat with Monsignor Lavalley at the Holy Name of Jesus Parish in Morrisville (VT). First conference. “We are broken and we are weak. And we are a broken church, and we are weak. We do not save ourselves. Jesus does.”
Father Yvon’s remarks on the 4th Sunday of Advent include an examination of conscience, an aid to preparing for Confession, as we journey toward Christmas.
Today, we celebrate the feast of Our Lady’s Immaculate Conception. And I want to put the emphasis right here on Jesus himself to explain the Immaculate Conception. Because Jesus was the cause of the Immaculate Conception, the reason for the Immaculate Conception, and the fruit of the Immaculate Conception.