"Be watchful! Be alert!"

Because it is Thanksgiving weekend, I'm busy preparing Thanksgiving dinner for my family while multi-tasking this week's homiletics email for you. So we hope you understand why you're receiving a truncated version of your Catholic Living Today.

This Sunday we celebrate the First Sunday in Advent. This marks the beginning of a new church year: the liturgical actualization for us of the saving events of Christ's life, death and resurrection. Our Discussion Questions will guide your Sunday Bible Study with family, friends and church groups.

The gospel passage for Sunday proclaims the essential truth that will be celebrated in all its dimensions throughout the year -- namely, the "advent" truth that God has come in the person of Jesus Christ, and that the same Lord, now invisibly present through the Spirit, will come again in power and glory. Click here to view the collection of Sunday homilies we have prepared for you this week.

And begining this Sunday, we begin using the revised Roman Missal in our liturgy. The main changes for the New Rite are the new, literal and more theologically and biblically accurate translations of a few words and sentences in some prayers from the original Latin text, Missale Romanum. Fr. John J. Ludvik provides us a summary of these changes for your easy reference.

Another eventful week in our Catholic World. Enjoy the Thanksgiving weeken with your family and loved ones.

Keep the Faith. Peace.

Wally Arida
Publisher & Editor in chief

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