Fr Cantalamessa's Advent Sermons

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Fr Cantalamessa's Advent Sermons
Topic Started: Saturday, 6. December 2008, 23:00 (15 Views)
KatyA	Saturday, 6. December 2008, 23:00 Post #1
Administrator Posts: 5,199 Group: Admin Member #6 Joined: September 26, 2006	As is done each year, the Pope and the members of the Roman Curia began attending a series of Advent sermons in preparation for Christmas. This year’s sermons are being delivered by the papal preacher Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa and will have a Pauline emphasis. This morning at 9:00 a.m. in the Redemptoris Mater Chapel of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, Pope Benedict XVI and members of the Roman Curia listened to the first Advent sermon of the season. This year's sermons, delivered by Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa O.F.M. Cap, have as their theme: "'When the fullness of time had come, God sent His Son, born of a woman'. Going with St. Paul to meet the Christ Who comes." Fr. Cantalamessa’s sermons will reflect upon the role of Christ in the thought and life of the Apostle of the Gentiles. The next two sermons will be held on December 12 and 19. Traditionally, cardinals, archbishops, bishops and prelates of the Roman Curia, as well as the superior generals of the religious orders that are part of the Pontifical Chapel are invited to the meditations. The text of the first Advent sermon, St. Paul: "Model of True Christian Conversion", can be seen HERE



KatyA	Monday, 15. December 2008, 12:04 Post #2
Administrator Posts: 5,199 Group: Admin Member #6 Joined: September 26, 2006	The second Advent sermon covers a lot of ground and can be read in full courtesy of ZENIT This part caught my attention Quote: Francis Collins, director of the research group that led in 2000 to the complete deciphering of the human genome. Knowing he was a believer, I asked him, among others, the question: "Did you believe first in God or in Jesus Christ?" He answered: "Up to the age of 25 I was an atheist, I had no religious preparation, I was a scientist who reduced almost everything to equations and laws of physics. But as a doctor I began to see people that had to face the problem of life and death, and this made me think that my atheism was not a rooted idea. I began to read texts on the rational arguments of faith that I did not know. As the first result I came to the conviction that atheism was the less acceptable alternative. Little by little I came to the conclusion that a God must exist who has created all this, but I didn't know how this God was." It is useful to read, in his book "The Language of God," how he overcame this impasse:



KatyA	Sunday, 21. December 2008, 23:54 Post #3
Administrator Posts: 5,199 Group: Admin Member #6 Joined: September 26, 2006	VATICAN CITY, DEC. 19, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Here is the Advent homily Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher of the Pontifical Household, delivered today in the Vatican in the presence of Benedict XVI and the Roman Curia. This is the third and last Advent sermons the preacher wrote on the theme "'When the Fullness of Time Had Come, God Sent his Son, Born of a Woman: Going With St. Paul to Meet the Christ Who Comes." Full text



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