Advent Week Four
Wow, it's hard to believe that this Sunday (Dec 20) is the last Sunday of Advent. Time always seems to have just flown by when we look backwards and seems to be a long way off when we look forward. Our Church, in its wisdom, has given us these four weeks each year prior to Christmas Day to spend in formation for a new experience of the first coming of Jesus Christ and preparation for the second. To assist in us that journey we celebrate and meditate and allow ourselves to be converted by four different "themes" - four ways to experience and prepare for living life to the full here on earth and look ahead with confident expectation that God will fulfill his promises. Here's a quick refresher for you of those four: We begin with HOPE ! This Advent journey is one of hope - not mere optimism or wishful thinking. Hope, as we contemplate it, is a theological virtue along with faith and charity (love). Our Catechism defines this virtue as the "way we desire and expect