Today – December 17 we shift into a higher gear in our Advent preparation for Christmas: it is the time of the "O Antiphons" which are used for the Magnificat at Evening Prayer in the Divine Office – as well as the "Alleluia Verse" of Daily Mass. Each "O" statement makes known a special title of the coming Messiah: Son of God and Son of Mary.
Today's "O" statement is O WISDOM of our God Most High – come to teach us the path of knowledge! Since this is first – it might be said to be the most important: all of the salvific activity in the world would not be useful to us if we did not know about it: and the way we know about something is by being taught about it! God has chosen to be our teacher!
The ONE TRUE TRUSTED KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM is the very Wisdom of God itself which became a human person: this is what the Antiphon announces and celebrates: the Messiah is the very knowledge of God, about God! When we are students of his: we can learn the most important aspects of life itself! We can have a reliable and trustworthy guide for making the choices in our own life!
The first reading tells us that God would never desert his people: he would someway, somehow get through and make his presence known and felt. The gospel passage tells us of the very genealogy of the Messiah himself: three sets of fourteen generations from the time of Abraham (Father in faith) to Jesus!
O Wisdom of God – guiding creation with power and love: come to teach us the path of knowledge!
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