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Advent week two - Reading the Advent season through nature

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Advent week two – Reading the Advent season through nature

July 29, 2019August 20, 2025

By Nancy de Flon | Catholic News ServiceAdvent is a season of expectation, of waiting for promises to be fulfilled – God's promises, to our Israelite ancestors in the faith and to us. Isaiah promises the birth of a child named Emmanuel, "God with us."The prophet Malachi foretells the rising of the sun of righteousness…...