Fourth
Sunday of ADVENT
Love
Blessed
are you who believed that what was spoken to you
by the Lord
would be fulfilled. -
Luke 1:45 (from Today's Gospel)
Incarnation ~ Piero di
Cosimo
“How to find Christmas
peace in a world
of unrest? You cannot find peace on the outside but you can find
peace on the inside, by letting God do to your soul what Mary let Him do to
body, namely, let Christ be formed in you. As she cooked meals
in her Nazarene home, as she nursed her aged cousin, as she drew water at the
well, as she prepared the meals of the village carpenter, as she knitted the
seamless garment, as she kneaded the dough and swept the floor,
she was conscious
that Christ was in her, that she was a living Ciborium, a
monstrance of the Divine Eucharist, a Gate of Heaven through which a Creator would peer
upon creation, a Tower of Ivory up whose chaste body He was to climb
‘to kiss upon her lips a mystical rose.’
As He was physically
formed in her, so He wills to be spiritually formed in you. If you knew He was seeing through your eyes, you would see in every
fellow man a child of God. If you knew that He worked through your
hands, they would bless all the day through. If you knew that He wants to
use your mind, your will, your fingers, and your heart, how different you would
be. If half of the world did this there would be no war!”
Blessed
are you who believed that what was spoken to you
by the Lord
would be fulfilled. -
Luke 1:45
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