This weekend the Church enters into the Third Sunday of Advent. We are nearing the moment in which the gift of God’s love and the promise for salvation entered our world. Let us use these remaining days to continue to prepare our minds and hearts for such a gift. John the Baptist was that voice crying out in the desert to “prepare the way of the Lord.” Let us heed his call and do exactly what he has asked. As we prepare ourselves for the Lord, the Lord is preparing to enter once again into our lives in an extraordinary way. Saint Josemaria once commented: “Look up, lift up your heads, because your redemption is at hand,” we read in the Gospel. Advent is a time for hope. These great horizons of our Christian vocation, this unity of life built on the presence of God our Father, can and ought to be a daily reality. . . Jesus wants to see us dedicated, faithful, and responsive. He wants us to love Him. It is His desire that we be holy, very much His own. Christ is Passing by, #11
