J. D. Flynn on Advent as the Remedy to Our Spiritual Crisis

". . . Any of us, he said, can affect a certain kind of religiosity without sincerity; any of us can be tempted to put on the trappings of faith without the interior disposition. Any of us can be tempted to give the appearance of love when, in truth, we do not love.

"Real faith grows when we have the humility and the honesty to profess what we really believe, to speak what we really know, and to stand before God and one another as we really are.

"Jesus transforms us, Newman taught, when we come before him as we are.

"That lesson resonates with many Catholics this year. The past six months have proven difficult. The Church faces a crisis that does not need ongoing enumeration. But it is a crisis in which sincerity has come into question, in which trust has been eroded, and in which many Catholics are no longer certain who they can believe and what they can trust.

"And, for at least some Catholics, it has occasioned a crisis of faith itself.

"Advent is the spiritual remedy to that crisis. . . ."

In a recent commentary, J. D. Flynn, editor-in-chief of Catholic News Agency, reflected on Advent as the remedy to the spiritual crisis that the Church is facing and that its members may be facing and on how the Church, the Body of Christ, is a source of grace even while She is in need of grace

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National Catholic Register: Commentary: Advent Is the Remedy to Our Spiritual Crisis (3 DEC 18)