This Advent season, I know God accepts me as a gay Catholic. ... Let us work with each other until justice runs down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream for the whole of the LGBTQ ...

Advent Week 1: The Mighty God. Read Revelation 19:4–21. The grad student dialoguing with me was heavy with questions posed by her agnostic friends about hell and God’s judgment.

The Advent Scriptures, for instance, recall Isaiah’s prophesy of a great future king and many, ... the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. ...

Advent Week 1: The Mighty God. Read Isaiah 40:1–5 and Malachi 3:1–4; 4:5–6. In Isaiah 40, we find the Israelites deported to a strange land—exiled and captive in ancient Babylon.

The mighty are still enthroned, the hungry still starve. Where does this leave us in our Advent observance? One lesson, from Catholic social teaching, is that we ought to help alleviate the ...

Fear not, O Zion, be not discouraged! The LORD, your God, is in your midst, a mighty savior; He will rejoice over you with gladness, and renew you in his love. ~ Zeph 3:16-17 On this day of the ...

Advent calls us to a deeper faith in Jesus' power to reconcile these lion-lamb opposites. ... images the divine and evokes a God who casts the mighty from their thrones.

Dr. Mark Mirvalle, a professor of theology at Ave Maria University in Florida, explains why Mary, the mother of Jesus is an important figure during the Advent and Christmas seasons.