“Season of Waiting” - 1st Sunday Advent (A) - 11.30.25

St. Mark the Evangelist Parish (Cranberry/Mars/Butler, PA)

Mass Readings - https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/113025.cfm

Quotes referenced:

• “Her body, which is fashioned for the slow process of physical gestation and equipped to

  nourish and sustain the frail new life she delivers into the world, is a kind of very

  incarnation of her powers of soul. It is for the slow martyrdom of patience that the spirit

  of woman is particularly fitted. It is for continuous giving of herself that her femininity is

  designed.” (Mother Mary Francis, My Beloved is Mine and I am His, 25)

• “We live in a microwave culture with a crockpot God”