Advent Time

On this day in the year 1093, Anselm was consecrated as the archbishop of Canterbury.

We have needs every day, but we also need a daily reminder that God loves us and he wants us to depend on him for our everyday stuff.

It's not always the giants, the obvious enemies, the clear battlefields that prove most exhausting and dangerous for us. It’s the ongoing, subtle, seductive, soul-gnawing smaller things in life that wear us down. What's a person to do?

Many of us have experienced what it feels like to wait and to remain patient this year. This Advent, we are reminded of how the saints before us experienced similar feelings of uncertainty, need, and hopeful expectation as they awaited - both faithfully and unfaithfully - for God to fulfill his promises.