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Advent: Preparing for Christ, Cycle B is unavailable, but you can change that!

The four weeks leading up to Christmas mark the beginning of the Western Church’s liturgical year. The Church stresses that Advent is a time of reflection, meditation, and preparation. This study will follow the Catholic Scripture Study format but will concentrate on the Sunday lectionary readings and incorporate the ancient method of Lectio Divina (praying the Scriptures). To prepare, each...

Most scholars agree that Isaiah 40–55, known as “Second Isaiah,” was written to the exiles while they were still in Babylon or immediately after they returned to Judah. Our particular passage, Isaiah 40:1–5, 9–11, is addressed to the exiles and to Jerusalem before the Return. Recall that the Jews had been conquered by the Babylonians and many forcibly removed from their homeland in 597 BC. Jerusalem and the Temple were destroyed in 586 B.C. Many more were killed
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