Our readings today, on this second day of the Advent Weekday Season, shows us immediately the painstaking precision of the construction of the lessons during this Advent Season. These took centuries to fine-tune – and now we have a literary masterwork of Holy Scripture at our disposal to “get us in the spirit” of the season of watching and joyful expectation.
Jesus rejoices that his father
gives everyone on earth the opportunity to peer into the mysteries of
salvation, the mysteries of redemption, the mysteries of the arrival of the
Messiah on earth; especially children have at their disposal what theologian
have been wrestling with for years. We must be humble like children in order to
learn what they learn, to know what they know – about God, about life, about
salvation!
The Prophet Isaiah today tells
us what kind of a Messiah Jesus will be: one with the Spirit of the Lord
resting upon him: “a Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, a Spirit of counsel
and of strength, a Spirit of knowledge and of fear of the Lord – and his
delight will be fear of the Lord” – his delight will be his total satisfaction
in being exactly who he is: Son of God, Son of Man – nothing more, nothing
less.
It is interesting to note:
that what rests on the coming Messiah is also the same Spirit that rests on us,
with the same gifts on the day of our Confirmation. We too – are chosen and
sent to make a difference in the world, to bring hope and light into a dark
place, to bring warmth and love wherever we go.
May we today be steeped in the
“spirit of Advent” – a season of gleaming joyful purple light of the dawn of
redemption – a season of giving the peace of Christ to all we meet.
Justice
shall flourish in his time, and fullness of peace forever.
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