Returning to the parish of my youth, I was a little disappointed with the state of preaching there, and was particularly let down by the Advent homily. I turned lemons into lemonade by using it as a springboard to my own Advent message video

We often hear that Advent is about the Joy of Christmas or welcoming the light of Jesus into the world. But while those things are partially true, they don’t represent what Advent is ultimately about.   Advent comes from the Latin word adventus, which means “coming.”