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Monday, First week of Advent

Is 2: 1-5; Mt 8: 5-11 Compare these two sayings from the first reading and the Gospel respectively: “Come, let us go to the mountain of the Lord”(Is 2:3) versus “I will come and cure you”(Mt 8:7)… it is in fact an integral part of the new paradigm of revelation that begins with Jesus’ coming. We are today reminded of the incarnational paradigm of our faith! From a state where we were expected to go in search of God, we arrive at a state where the Lord comes in search of us. ‘The Word became flesh and dwelt among us’...

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AN ADVENTAGEOUS ADVENTURE

“No ear has ever heard, no eye ever seen, any God but You doing such deeds for those who wait for Him.” –Isaiah 64:3 We should take Advent as seriously as a new mother takes her pregnancy. The Christmas season is not merely a memory, celebration, or blessing, but a new, extremely important encounter with the incarnate Jesus. St. Charles Borromeo taught: “This holy season (Advent) teaches us that Christ’s coming was not only for the benefit of His contemporaries; His power has still to be communicated to us” (from Office of Readings, Monday of the first week of Advent)....

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NO DEAD END

“The throne of God and of the Lamb shall be there, and His servants shall serve Him faithfully. They shall see Him face to face.” –Revelation 22:3-4 On this last day of the Church’s year, in this new millennium, Jesus says, as quoted in the last verses of the Bible: “Remember, I am coming soon!” (Rv 22:7) After Jesus’ final coming, those who have been faithful slaves of Jesus will go to heaven and see the Lord face to face (Rv 22:4). “Never again shall they know hunger or thirst, nor shall the sun or its heat beat down on...

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PASSED AWAY

My words will not pass.” –Luke 21:33 To describe death, we say: “He passed away.” “The heavens and earth will pass away” (Lk 21:33; Rv 21:1). “Created things will pass away” (Heb 12:27). “The world with its seductions is passing away” (1 Jn 2:17). “The world as we know it is passing away” (1 Cor 7:31). Almost everything is passing away. All this passing away is a terrible problem for all human beings, for the Lord “has put the timeless” into our heart (Eccl 3:11). Our heart for the timeless is threatened and disturbed by all this passing away. This...

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THE FEAST OF FEASTS

“The angel then said to me: ‘Write this down: Happy are they who have been invited to the wedding feast of the Lamb.’ ” –Revelation 19:9 In the USA, today is Thanksgiving Day. Many of us will be enjoying the traditional Thanksgiving feast with our families. We hope that this feast will prefigure the ultimate feast, “the wedding feast of the Lamb” in heaven. To accept the Lord’s invitation to His wedding feast, we must make a covenant of love with Him, completely give our lives to the Lord, and have a relationship with Him which transcends marriage. This wedding...