Issue No.9 November 2014 MISSIONARY SISTERS OF OUR LADY OF AFRICA ‘WHITE SISTERS’ - MSOLA ..... at the service of Africa ‘We wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Saviour Jesus Christ’ T hese words, repeated every day during Mass after the “Our Father”...
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Issue No.9 November 2014 MISSIONARY SISTERS OF OUR LADY OF AFRICA ‘WHITE SISTERS’ - MSOLA ..... at the service of Africa ‘We wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Saviour Jesus Christ’ T hese words, repeated every day during Mass after the “Our Father” keep coming to me these days as we approach the season of ADVENT. We don’t always connect waiting with joy. In fact we can feel anxious when we wait to see the dentist or doctor or impatient when we wait for a bus that never seems to come. Yet waiting can also be full of ‘joyful hope’when we wait for a friend we haven’t seen for a long time or for the birth of a child. During Advent we wait with Mary to welcome Jesus the Saviour of the world once again into our lives. He is the one foretold in the Old Testament. He expressed his mission in the words: The Spirit of the Lord is on me, for he has anointed me to bring the good news to the aflicted. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives, sight to the blind, to let the oppressed g
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