This has been a crazy week! In the midst of trying to get prepared for the beginning of Advent, we have also had a number of other divine interruptions to the schedule which I have learned is anything but tranquil on the best of days.
Today, the Church celebrates the first Sunday of Advent. This four-week period of immediate preparation for Christmas invites us to recognize our dependence on God - something which seems to be increasingly left by the wayside by those who put their trust in other realities with which the more fortunate among us have become accustomed.
Faced with the rather insidious belief that all will be well if we just work hard and invest wisely, many eventually discover that no amount of planning or hoping will guarantee such wealth. By contrast, the scripture passages for this first Sunday of Advent call God's people to renewed hope in the promise of life that has been proclaimed since Jesus himself walked this earth.
My homily, entitled Choose hope, speaks of the power of hope to overcome even the greatest of barriers imposed by fear or despair. It's available, as always in text format as well as in podcast format.
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