Third Sunday of Advent

For a Doctrinal Homily Outline for the Third Sunday of Advent, Year A, click here.

• Central Idea: God is our savior from oppression, suffering, and death.
• Doctrine: The virtue of patience.
• Practical Application: Zeal in living and spreading the Faith.

Tanquerey in The Spiritual Life defines patience as “a Christian virtue that makes us withstand with equanimity of soul, for the love of God, and in union with Jesus Christ, all physical and moral sufferings.”