Advent Calendar: Thursday in the Second Week of Advent
December 13th
"To all those that received Him, who believed in His name, He gave power to become children of God." (John 1:12)
To believe in His Name... Christ, the Son of God.
If we truly believe in His name we should want to love Him for the sheer sake of His excellence. He truly Is all. If we believe this then adoration should come naturally in profound recognition of His infinite power. Thanksgiving should become a permanent disposition of our soul in light of the gifts that we have received. We should also, in realizing that Christ is the source of all things, turn to Him in petition for all that we need. The final result of recognizing Christ as God, is penance. The acts that we perform to expiate the punishment we have earned, should become daily and be freely and willfully given. These four things Adoration, Thanksgiving, Petition and Penance or Expiation all flow from the intellectual realization of who Christ actually is. This is the babe who is coming in a few short days into our hearts and homes. God made man.
- By Benjamin Bielinski
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Benjamin Bielinski
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Benjamin Bielinski is a Catholic writer with a background in marketing, sales and media. He previously lived abroad in Poland as a corporate, operations and logistics manager for IBM. He is currently the Director of Marketing and Sales at Angelus Press. Early in his career he spent a number of years at the Society of St. Pius X Seminary in Winona, MN and a year in the Benedictine Monastery of Silver City, NM.