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The Third Week of Advent 2025

The Gifts of Advent from Loyola Press
 
The Gifts of Advent
 

The Gift of Grace Freely Given

To be astonished means to be surprised and impressed. Every day, Jesus is pouring out grace and mercy to us, and the Spirit is teaching us truth. Yet we can still experience the doldrums of the mundane. How can our hearts and minds be open to God’s beauty and love that are present in what’s ordinary? The dishes to be washed, the e-mails to be read, the bed to be made? The ordinary is sacred and ought to astonish. Today, let’s pray for the grace to feel astonishment for God’s love.

 

—Excerpted from 2026: A Book of Grace-Filled Days by Julia Walsh

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