The Present Advent of Christ

This is the season of Advent within the Church year where we anticipate Christ’s coming. Even though we tend to focus on Christ’s birth, in reality there are three Advents of Christ.

In his First Advent, which we celebrate at Christmas (and for which we are currently frantically shopping), Christ came in the flesh asa humble baby in a manger in order to ultimately die for our sins and then rise to defeat death and to justify us before our Heavenly Father. Jesus came to reconcile us with God b...