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As members of St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church, we are a multicultural community guided by the Holy Spirit and the Catholic Church. Our family of faith leads a Christ-centered life to enrich our world through sacrament, worship, service, and hospitality.

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2nd Sunday of Advent

We prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus. In the second stage of the “Advent journey,” the liturgy speaks of the reason for Jesus’ coming to meet humanity: He comes to fulfill God’s promises and to inaugurate a new world, radically different from this old world we know, full of hatred, conflicts, lies, violence, and wars. The Word of God we hear this Sunday asks us to welcome this Child with open arms and to accept the challenge He gives us to become part of the community of the Kingdom of God.​

In the first reading, the prophet Isaiah presents, with the language of a poet and the conviction of a prophet, the plan that God intends to carry out for His people: at the appointed time there will come an “anointed one” of the Lord, born from the family of King David, who will inaugurate a kingdom of unending justice and peace. In that beautiful and harmonious world that will then be born, “the wolf will live with the lamb and the panther will lie down with the kid; the calf and the young lion will walk together and a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear will graze together; and the lion will eat hay like the ox. The nursing child will play near the snake’s nest and the little boy will put his hand into the viper’s den.” This window of dream allows us to glimpse, in the distance, the Child of Bethlehem.​

In the Gospel, John the Baptist gives a warning to all those who come to him in the valley of the Jordan River: the arrival of the Kingdom of justice and peace, once announced by God, is near. To welcome the one sent by God, it is first necessary to “be converted.” To be converted is to leave the dead-end paths on which we walk and “turn back,” going to meet God. Those who accept making this “journey of conversion” will be ready to welcome the Kingdom of God and to become part of the community of the Messiah.​

In the second reading, the apostle Paul, addressing the Christians in Rome, reminds them of some of the demands that result from the commitment they have made to Christ. Being, among their fellow citizens, the visible face of Christ, they must bear witness to unity, harmony, and fraternity, welcoming and helping the weaker brothers and sisters and being signs of that new world that Christ came to inaugurate.​

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