“Coming of the Messiah is Good News for the Oppressed” God of life… Wake us up with your life giving Words. Splash our faiths with your Truth, which can make gasp and catch our breath. Draw us deeper into the depths of our Spiritual lives, where we may learn to realize more by your life giving words. Surprise us with deeper meaning of the Scriptures which would help us to enlarge our vision and action. Fill us with the sense of urgency to perceive and obey your powerful words. Renew and strengthen our faiths. In Jesus name we pray………… Amen Advent is a special season in Christian ecclesial faith and tradition, marked by a spirit of expectation, of anticipation, of preparation, of longing for deliverance and for justice. Advent is a season of hope and expectation within the context of exclusion, poverty, untouchability, oppression, violence, stigma and discrimination and injustice in the world. The joy of advent contrasts sharply with the suffering people who live in the edges of the soc