The Darkness before Christ

From the 6pm Mass on Sunday, December 22, 2024, the Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year C, at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak. Just how well can we understand the "Good News," the Gospel, if we don't understand the "bad news," the darkness? How dark was it, before the coming of Christ? How dark is it, when we have not given our lives over to Christ? In this homily, I explore the darkness, and ask the congregation to pray about and sit in the darkness for these couple of days before Christmas, before the coming of Jesus Christ, our Life and Light.