PREPARING IN JOYFUL HOPE AND IN THANKSGIVING

This second week of Advent, the Lord, through his prophet Baruch, asks us to, ‘take off the garment of your sorrow and affliction…and put on for ever the beauty of the glory from God. Put on the robe of righteousness from God, put on your head the crown of the glory of the Everlasting. For God will show splendour everywhere under heaven…For God will lead…with joy in the light of his glory, with the mercy and righteousness that come from him’ (cf. Baruch 5:1-9).

Beloved People of God, as we, in prayer, prepare the way of the Lord, in joyful hope, we incorporate gratitude as a major component of the instruments that we need on our journey in life, as pilgrims on earth, particularly, this season of Advent. We ought to be thanking God, joyfully, as we remember each other in all our prayers. This is because, while we are waiting in hope for the glorious return of our Saviour, we can re-echo with the Psalmist, ‘what great deeds the Lord worked for us! Indeed. We are glad’. Through our baptism, through our adoption as God’s children, our salvation has been assured. It has been accomplished. We are, therefore, marching on a victorious ground. The Lord has already freed us from slavery to sin. He has brought us back from our exile. Our mouth ought to be filled with laughter and on our tongues, songs of joy, (cf. Ps

As God has done for the people of old, he will do for us. He who began a good work in us will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. May our love, therefore, abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment. May we harken to the voice of the one crying in the wilderness: ‘prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight… Thus shall all flesh see the salvation of God’ (cf. Lk 3:1-6)

All to Jesus – Through Mary our Mother 8th December 2024
Second Sunday of Advent