Fr. Marlin Connole Proclaims Embrace God's Transforming Grace During Advent And To Slow Down

Fr. Connole issues a Call To Action for all the faithful during the Advent Season to embrace the grace of God that transforms the faithful. Advent Season, explains Fr. Connole, is one of the shortest Liturgical Seasons of the Church year. Even so, Advent Season is typically a very busy season with the hustle and bustle that can truly exhaust a person. Christmas trees to decorate, presents to buy, wrap, and send, cards to write and mail, holiday parties and open houses to attend, and Christmas foods to prepare, are just some of the activities that Fr. Connole describes that go hand in hand with the Advent Season.

As a result, Fr. Connole exhorts the faithful to be careful during the Advent Season and to slow down and allow God's transforming grace to indeed transform the faithful. To illustrate the point, Fr. Connole shares the following story:
A father took his son, a toddler, shopping during the Christmas holiday season. During the shopping excursion, the toddler experienced a temper tantrum and emotional meltdown, as evidenced by the toddler's crying, and crying, and crying. During the toddler's crisis the father kept repeating, "Be calm Billy, Billy be calm." A fellow shopper passing by noticed the scene and offered some moral support by going up to the father and said, "Well, it looks like little Billy needs some soothing." The father looked at the fellow shopper and said, pointing to the toddler, "He's not Billy... I AM!" :-)

In conclusion, Fr. Connole describes Advent Season as a time to embrace God's grace to slow down, take a few deep breaths, and recover our own interior wholeness, which allows a person to participate in the holiday activities, while at the same time experience the Advent Season journey in the spirit of peace, joy, and love.

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