Advent 1A
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As tempests swirl and hatred flows around us, Jesus reminds us that we already know the way to live, the way to be is to love generously.
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Jesus tells his followers to do something more than prepare: to feel an urgency, to be ready, for the need is urgent and ongoing.
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Jesus’s apocalyptic vision seems confusing. Until we focus on what he’s trying to say rather than what we hear.
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Getting started with Advent 1A with familiar themes for the season. The most obvious of them is preparation.
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When Jesus describes this apocalyptic vision, the terror is what we focus on. But Jesus wants us to see the hope.
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In the holiday season, we hear Jesus’s invite us to listen and hear in the midst of chaos—a call, not to ending it, but being in the center of it.