On that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see The lowly will ever find joy in the Lord and the poor rejoice in the Holy One For the tyrant will be no more and the arrogant will have gone all who are alert to do evil will be cut

nbsp Cambridge MA I am in the midst of my ldquo Krsna in Advent rdquo series mdash nbsp the first entry posted a few days ago the next to come in a few days mdash but I cannot help but interrupt to remember two great Christian intellectuals and writers who died forty years ago on Decembe

Associate Editor Matt Malone S J explains why a song from West Side Story always reminds him of Advent Tim Reidy

On this day the Lord of hosts will provide for all peoples He will destroy death forever The Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces On that day it will be said Behold our God to whom we looked to save us This is the Lord for whom we looked Let us rejoice and be glad that he has sav

On that day a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse and from his roots a bud shall blossom The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him This Spirit will give him wisdom and understanding will give him counsel and strength will give him knowledge and fear of the Lord and the delight of t

Advent First Week Wednesday Come let us climb the Lord s mountain to the house of the God of Jacob that he may instruct us in his ways and we may walk in his paths Then one nation shall not raise the sword against another nor shall they train for war again O come let us walk in th

Look down from Heaven and see Where is your zeal and your might O God Will you refuse your mercy to us You were always called Our Redeemer Why Lord do you let us wander from your ways And let our hearts grow too hard to fear you Return Lord to your servants O that you would tear the

Advent First Week Monday The days are coming says the Lord when I will fulfill the promise I have made In those days at that time I will raise up for David a just son he shall do what is right and just in the land In those days when God dwells among us and in each of us Our name will be

The first in a series for Advent

Cambridge MA I have been teaching a seminar on the Bhagavad Gita reading it with two classical commentaries by Ramanuja 11th century and by Madhusudana Sarasvati 16th century and two modern commentaries by Mahatma Gandhi and by Bede Griffiths the Catholic monk who lived for many years in