Strike a match: Homily for December 2, 2018, 1st Sunday of Advent | Deacon Greg Kandra

Strike a match: Homily for December 2, 2018, 1st Sunday of Advent | Deacon Greg Kandra: Hearing this Sunday’s Gospel, you could be forgiven for thinking it was a mistake. It is all gloom and doom, fire and brimstone. It is apocalyptic: there signs in the heavens…roaring seas…people dying of fright.  You might be thinking: that doesn’t sound very Christmas-y. Yet there is more at work here — and this