Fourth Sunday in Advent

Jesus is coming, as God’s LOVE for us                           

The promise of God is sure: “But you, O Bethlehem...from you shall come forth for me one who is to rule...and he shall stand and feed his flock in the strength of the Lord.”                           

On this fourth Sunday of Advent, we celebrate the coming of Jesus as God’s gift of LOVE to the world: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life”                           

Until the day when the world is filled with God’s promised gift of eternal life, we receive and rejoice in the sacrificial love with which Jesus loves us. As the candle of love is lit, take and receive the love of God, revealed in Bethlehem’s child, and use it to help transform the world. We pledge ourselves as God’s loved partners to love the world God loves, not counting the cost.