It’s Advent, and I can’t express enough the joy I’m having in experiencing this season for the first time as a Catholic. I feel as if I’m a child again. This season is so rich with expectation as well as meaningful traditions and rituals.
Week one the reveille trumpet blew, “Brothers and sisters: You know the time;
it is the hour now for you to awake from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.”
Last Saturday, we rejoiced as the plot thickened. Jesus, reaching down from the heavens, saved his mother from the clutches of sin and the devil at the point of her conception, in order to allow her, a mere human, to become the Theotokos, the God Bearer.
Week two another player is introduced,”a voice of one crying out in the desert, Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.” At my parish, many of us availed ourselves of the Tuesday night penance service with six priests hearing confessions. John’s call speaks to us here and today!
The drumbeat, faint at first, is starting to get louder. I can’t wait to hear what’s coming next! This is a lot more fun than the “ritual” of just watching the Charlie Brown Christmas special for the umpteenth time!
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December 18, 2007 at 3:14 am
After I returned to the Church, I too was overcome with how beautiful and significant Advent is. The way the Church leads the faithful along to the final day of Christmas is so amazing.
Thanks for the post.