The fourth Advent candle shines with love. God draws near, not in force but in tenderness. Love takes flesh in Mary’s womb, inviting us to welcome Christ with open hearts and quiet trust.
HOLY FAMILY OF NAZARETH, make our family one with you. Help us to be instruments of peace. Grant that love, strengthened by grace, may prove mightier than all the weaknesses and trials through which our families sometimes pass. May we always have God at the centre of our hearts and homes until we are all one family, happy and at peace in our true home with you. Amen.