Martin Jumbam
The Universal Church celebrates November 30, 2014 as the first Sunday of Advent in the liturgical year B. The first Sunday of Advent marks the beginning of a new Church year. The season of Advent is a four-week period before Christmas during which the Church concentrates her attention on our Lord’s coming, a central theme in the Church’s worship. Advent (from the Latin adventus, meaning “coming”) looks back to the first coming of Christ, when he was born that first Christmas in Bethlehem over two thousand years ago, and it looks forward to his second coming at the end of time, when we will meet Him and His Father face-to-face in the glory of the heavenly kingdom.
During this liturgical year B, the Gospel readings will come mostly from the Gospel of Mark. Those of liturgical year A, the year that has just ended, came from the Gospel of Matthew and those of liturgical year C will come from the Gospel of Luke. These three Gospels are so similar that they can be placed side-by-side and viewed as it were at a glance: for this reason they are called ‘synoptic’, meaning at a glance. The Gospel of John is only heard in Lent and Eastertide.
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