Second Sunday of Advent, Cycle C
What’s in your heart?
Baruch proclaims that we will be remembered by God. Do I feel remembered?
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Baruch proclaims that we will be remembered by God. Do I feel remembered?
The late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin said, “A dying person does not have time for the peripheral or the accidental. He or she is drawn to the essential, the important.”
The feast of Christ the King recognizes the triumph of Jesus, the one who testified to the truth with his words and with his life.
This week the readings convey a sense of imminent crisis, a realization that life has come to a point of fundamental decision. Do I recognize those decision moments in my own life? How about in the lives of people I encounter in my role as minister?
In today’s scripture, we get two of those forces: bread and power. But the way the characters react makes a difference.
You might ask yourself who comes to mind when you think of those blessed in the gospel beatitudes: the poor in spirit, pure in heart, the merciful, sorrowing, honest, the peacemakers, those who suffer for the sake of righteousness.
God promises to provide a “level road so that none shall stumble.” What stumbling blocks do I experience on my spiritual journey?
Have Jesus’ words about the first being the last and the last first helped me let go of the natural tendency to measure myself and others in terms of perks and power rather than by the capacity to give freely to others?
God provides all that we need. The first reading says if we choose wisdom, all other riches come to us. The second reading says God’s Word is living and effective. The gospel tells the familiar story of the rich young man.
The original covenant of love was initiated by God. God made that covenant with our spiritual ancestors and commits to that covenant with each one of us today.
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