Advent is, along with Lent, one of the liturgical periods of great spiritual intensity for Christians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Advent, meaning \u201carrival\u201d, is a preparation for Christmas. It is the first stage of the liturgical cycle and lasts four weeks. It is traditional that in every Christian community a longer period of time like this is dedicated to prayer. For example, in the Vatican itself, every Friday, the preacher of the Papal Household offers a meditation addressed to the Pope and the officials of the Curia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
RANIERO CANTALAMESSA Every period of spiritual preparation in the Catholic Church is usually accompanied by fasting, almsgiving and penitence. That is why purple, a penitential color, is used in almost all liturgical celebrations. In Advent, there is only one Mass in which pink is used: Gaudete Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n POPE FRANCIS The pink color is the result of mixing the purple of penitence with white for the joy of Christ arrival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition, in some countries there are particular traditions such as Advent wreaths or calendars. In Italy, on that same Gaudete Sunday, the Pope usually blesses the so-called \u201cbambinelli\u201d - the little figures of the baby Jesus that families will place in the manger of their homes. Advent is a time of preparation for Christ\u2019s arrival at Christmas and a time of great spiritual intensity for Christians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":73236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,179],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/E1aMjyv89aQ","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/badvientoeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/badvientoint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73233"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73980,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73233\/revisions\/73980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Preacher of the Papal Household<\/strong>
The long-awaited Messiah, the one announced by the prophets, promised by the psalms, would he then be that man of such humbleappearances?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/strong>Let us celebrate today the third Sunday of Advent.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
BAM\/GS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"