Advent Week 1
joyful anticipation
The Advice has now arrived again, a time of joyful waiting coinciding, however this year, with the celebration of the Jubilee of Incarnation, Jubilee of Hope
The vision of Isaiah, the prophet who dreamed of a different world in which “swords became ploughshares and spears became powerhouses”, as we will hear in the first reading of this Sunday's liturgy, is far from being a reality. It is the utopia that can keep us firm within a reality that continues to be difficult. But we know that reality, however harsh it may be, cannot eliminate hope for a better world. We must hold on to the utopia that “another world is possible”.
In the second reading, Pablo will repeat to us that it is time to wake up, but we continue to behave like true fools. We will continue walking in the wrong direction.
To watch over those who love you, they know a lot
¡Velad!, ¡Vigilad!, tell us the Señor. To watch over them, they know a lot. The wife who waits for her husband who has been late at work knows what he must return to after a trip; The mother knows that she is uneasy because her son still doesn't have to go home... The lover also knows how to wait when the other is late. We wait for Jesus if we love him and if we wait for him by loving him concretely, committing himself to the construction of a fairer society.
(Fr. José Maria, CPPS)
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