Listen to the homily here.
Notes:
Notes:
Welcome Advent!
· Shortest Advent we can have
· Three weeks and two days and Christmas comes
· Ad-vent = arrival on the way
· Pray, silence, Jesus Christ
In another different
time and a different place Isaiah prophesied:
· Centuries before Jesus Christ
· BC = Before Christ
· “Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down,
with the mountains quaking before you,
while you wrought awesome deeds we could not hope for,
such as they had not heard of from of old.
No ear has ever heard, no eye ever seen, any God but you
doing such deeds for those who wait for him.”
with the mountains quaking before you,
while you wrought awesome deeds we could not hope for,
such as they had not heard of from of old.
No ear has ever heard, no eye ever seen, any God but you
doing such deeds for those who wait for him.”
o Jesus wasn’t even born yet
o And they were waiting for their Messiah…their
King
In
another different time and a different place: Jesus speaking to his disciples
· “Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Be
watchful! Be alert! You do not know
when the time will come.’”
· After Jesus’ birth, before Jesus’ death
· And Jesus was speaking about another level
when he would come back to earth
And between these
events there was another time and another person: Mary…watchful and alert
· Nine months before the story that we know
about
· Annunciation
o Fiat: let it
be to me according to your word
· We don’t know the actual date—today we
remember it on March 25th—why?
9 months away from Christmas
· While we know the story, how often do we
think about Christmas throughout the year?
o Mary did!
o Joseph did too and protected her and her son
We begin the story
again
· Advent, Christmas, Easter
Now place yourself
in different times and places
· The Israelites needed to be watchful and
alert to prepare for their Messiah, their king
· Disciples needed to watch and be alert
· Mary was watchful and alert
o And she said, “Fiat” to do God’s will
o To bring Jesus Christ into the world
To you, listen in
your heart:
· “Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down,
with the mountains quaking before you,
while you wrought awesome deeds we could not hope for,
such as they had not heard of from of old.
No ear has ever heard, no eye ever seen, any God but you
doing such deeds for those who wait for him.”
with the mountains quaking before you,
while you wrought awesome deeds we could not hope for,
such as they had not heard of from of old.
No ear has ever heard, no eye ever seen, any God but you
doing such deeds for those who wait for him.”
As we walk through
Advent, do you watch…do you be alert…to know that Jesus Christ did
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