Tuesday of the First Week of Advent
Today’s Advent readings present us with an idyllic contrast to the world in which we live. A world where there natural enemies rest peacefully together and children are safe from any poisonous thing that might harm them. How much we long for a world like that when we listen (as we must!) to the news.
Jesus tells us that to see the path to this peaceful world, we must have a childlike trust that the “Just One” is responding to our cries. God will rescue the poor and the afflicted but I daresay that will come through choosing justice. We need to tend justice so that it can flower in our day. To listen to the poor, to respond to those who have no one to help, and to have the will to put an end to animosity wherever we find it. We can be tempted to just rest in the idyllic picture but the Advent call and challenge is to work for peace by doing justice.
—Sr. Laura Leming, FMI