A pre-sermon note with encouragement and ideas of how to enter more fully into the upcoming season of Advent. It is a penitential season according to the liturgy of the Church and the devotion of the faithful. Let Advent be Advent! Don't rush straight away into Christmas at the beginning of December, but allow this to be a penitential and yet joyful time of expectation. And then, when Christmas does arrive, celebrate Christmas through the whole of the Christmas season and even all of January!
In the sermon itself, we look at the Good Thief (St Dismas), who was converted not by miracles or even by great preaching, but by the mercy which Christ Jesus showed in praying for those who persecuted him.
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