The Three Advent

1. The advent which has already happened in historical time and space and which we now commemorate each Christmas, the one in which Christ entered the world through the womb of Mary to "seek and to save that which was lost".

2. The advent known as the "time of visitation" by which Christ is now present and active in each of our lives. Daily he is at work in us through grace to transform us into his image and likeness and to bring us salvation and healing from the sin, difficulties, sicknesses, and human frailties of our everyday lives.

3. The advent in which Christ will come to judge the living and the dead, and to take us to himself at end of times.

Bernard of Clairvaux

I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits,

and in his word I put my hope. (Psalm 130:5)