9 december 2025 – BELOVED FAITHFUL – You know that the Christmas season is preceded by Advent, yet this is something the world around us no longer takes into account. Advent is a quiet and restrained waiting for the coming of the Lord: a season marked indeed by joyful expectation, but not yet adorned with the colours of the feast of the Incarnation of God.
During the four weeks of Advent our personal lives—just like the liturgy—ought to be shaped by restraint and silence.
First of all, because we have not yet arrived at the joyful adoration of God in the manger, but are still on our way toward it.
Secondly, because that joy will be all the greater if it has not already been drained beforehand by the neo-pagan spectacle that characterises the worldly celebration of Christmas, a celebration that never comes to kneel joyfully and gratefully in adoration before God.
Let us not deceive ourselves: Christmas is celebrated from the holy Night of the Nativity until the time of Epiphany, for the joy of the children of God is not of this world, but comes from Him who was born into this world to redeem what was lost.
✠ With my priestly blessing,
Fr. M. Kromann Knudsen, Pastor