Extract I:
"During Advent the Church is preoccupied with the first great stage of her annual journey, namely the dark road that leads to the true light of Christmas. Keeping our eyes focused on that goal, she leads us slowly but surely forward under the lamp of Old Testament prophecy. This she has kept trimmed over the centuries, and each year it comes unfailingly to her aid. Occasionally she halts on the march in order to show us some of the treasures in her pilgrim scrip. These are the Saints of Advent and its one great Solemnity, the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.....
Holy Mother Church encourages us to pay attention to them, not only because of the countless numbers of souls they have already brought to the kingdom of Christ, but because by the example, teaching and prayers of our Blessed Mother and the Saints, we are continually helped to attain it ourselves."
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