Advent preaching for the Pope and all of the Curia; good message for all of us

Papal Preacher’s First Advent Sermon 2017

‘All Things Were Created Through Him and for Him’

December 15, 2017ZENIT StaffFrancis

Father Raniero Cantalamessa ofmcap, gave the first of two scheduled reflections to the Pope and Roman Curia on December 15, 2017. The text follows:

Father Raniero Cantalamessa ofmcap

First Advent Sermon 2017

“All things were created through him and for him”

Christ and Creation

The meditations for Advent this year (there are only two because of the calendar) propose to put the divine-human person of Christ back at the center of the two great components that together constitute “reality,” that is, the cosmos and history, space and time, creation and humanity. We need to recognize that despite a lot of talk about him, Christ is marginalized in our culture. He is completely absent—and for more than understandable reasons—from the three main dialogues in which faith is engaged in our contemporary world: the dialogues between faith and science, faith and philosophy, and the interreligious dialogue.
My ultimate purpose, however, is not theoretical but practical. The issue above all is putting Christ back at the center of our personal lives and our vision of the world and at the center of the three theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity. Christmas is the most propitious season for such a reflection, since this is the time when we recall the moment when the Word became flesh, entering physically into creation and history, into space and time.


Read the entire reflection here:  https://zenit.org/articles/papal-preachers-first-advent-sermon-2017/