Preparations - Magazine - Page 1
A Gift to You & Your Family
from Your Catholic School
Wednesday 3rd December 2025
Dear Parents and Carers,
Buying presents, decorations and planning our Christmas
meal are all good ways of preparing for Christmas. But
through all these preparations we do need to keep in
mind the real reason for all these festivities. It’s important
that we spend some time preparing ourselves too.
In this Sunday’s Gospel, we hear John the Baptist calling
the people to repent (to come back to God) and to
prepare themselves for Christ’s arrival.
Christian ‘repentance’ is a wholly positive experience
when we invite God into our lives and take a grip
on ourselves, changing some of our ways or even,
maybe, our direction in life.
So let’s listen to John the Baptist and prepare our
hearts well - being ready to receive and share
God’s love with all we meet as part of this
week’s Christmas PREPARATIONS.
Dom Henry Wansbrough
A Word from
The Saints
“Prepare a path for God so that he can enter your heart.”
St John Baptist De La Salle
THE GOSPEL IN CHURCH
Sunday 12th December 2025
In due course John the Baptist appeared;
he preached in the wilderness of Judea
and this was his message: “Repent,
change your ways; for the kingdom of
heaven is close at hand.” This was the
man the prophet Isaiah spoke of when
he said, ‘A voice cries in the wilderness: prepare
a way for the Lord, make his paths straight’. This
man John wore a garment made of camel-hair
with a leather belt round his waist, and his food
was locusts and wild honey. Then Jerusalem and all
Judea and the whole Jordan district made their way
to him, and as they were baptised by him in the
river Jordan they confessed their sins. John said to
the people, “I baptise you in water for repentance,
but the one who follows me is more powerful than
I am, and I am not fit to carry his sandals; he will
baptise you with the Holy Spirit and fire.”
Adapted from Matthew 3:1-12
The 2nd Sunday of Advent, Year A
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Learn more about this Sunday’s Gospel in your
local Parish Church: all are very warmly invited.
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This Sunday’s Gospel reminds us to look into our hearts this Advent and see if
there are any ways that we could make a change for the better. This is how
we can prepare our hearts to be filled with a joy that lasts long after the
Christmas festivities have passed. Let’s not miss out!
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