Episode 199
A Year of Favor from the Lord
Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
December 9, 202015m 13s
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Show Notes
The third Sunday of Advent is traditionally called “Gaudete Sunday.” “Gaudete” is a Latin imperative—it’s a command—which means “rejoice.” The Church is telling us to be happy. And in the first reading—a marvelous passage from the sixty-first chapter of the prophet Isaiah, which presents the motif of the “anointed one”—it gives us the reasons why we should rejoice.