From Anglican Mainstream.
The lessons today come from the Latin Rite Lectionary for the feast of Francis of Xavier. They remind us that his life like our season of Advent is about hope. One of the three great virtues: faith, hope and love. Faith leads to hope and hope leads to love. Our world needs hope very desperately! We need to believe that this world with all it brokenness, violence and lack of opportunity and freedom, – can be quite different. And that is what Christ comes to bring. A new world, a world transformed.
I guess we should have named Paul Francis. Today is his birthday…. But we named him Paul Gregory, instead, after his grandfather.