The One Who Cries in the Wilderness

Imprisoned for his opposition to Hitler, Father Alfred Delp wrote “The Shaking Reality of Advent,” from which the following is an excerpt, in a Nazi prison shortly before he was executed in 1945. Woe to an age when the voices of those who cry in the...

Prepare the Way

And you, child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High for you will go before the Lord to prepare the way… —Luke 1:76 Each week in Advent has a watchword and a Biblical figure with which it is associated. The word for this second week is “prepare,” and it...