Advent.

In the first Gospel of Advent, Christ reminds us to “stand ready”. The impervious, unprepared people in “Noah’s day” were distracted by their eating and “drinking”, oblivious to the imminent flood. In what, then, does this Advent preparation consist? Putting on the Lord Jesus Christ through faith “Faith is…a liberation of my I from its preoccupation with self, a liberation that sets me free to respond to the Father, to ‘speak the Yes of love that sets me free to say Yes to being….Faith is…a breaking out of the isolation that is the malady of my I. The act of faith is…a breaking open of the door of my subjectivity”. (Pope Benedict XVI). ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the Temple of the God of Jacob that he may teach us his ways so that we may walk in his paths…. let us walk in the light of the Lord!”