A New Year is Here!
Here we are at the start of a new liturgical year, a chance to begin again. As we know, each Advent season we open ourselves to receiving Christ in a new or re-newed way. We await Christ’s coming in a three-fold way: · The coming of Christ in history as a child born to newlywed parents in very challenging circumstances. This is the coming we recall in each crèche we place in our homes and churches. · The coming of Christ in our hearts. I would guess that this is where we put much of our “prayer” energy in this season; preparing our hearts, making space for the Christ child to be born anew. · And thirdly, we await Christ’s final coming to bring a new heaven and a new earth with the ills of our earthly life resolved and peace and reconciliation in every corner. Today we enter this season with a fervent plea from the people of Isaiah’s time. “Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, with the mountains quaki