+ I hope that one movie presentation still lives in the hearts and memories of many generations of men, women and children: And the movie is the Rodgers and Hammerstein blockbuster presentation of THE SOUND OF MUSIC. In the production, Mother Superior encourages soul-searching postulant Maria to search for her life, to “climb every mountain ‘til she finds her dream:” until she finds God’s will and is “intent on doing it with all her heart.” This Maria does and finds a life beyond anything she could have imagined.
Our
first reading today invites us to “climb the Lord’s Mountain” to the heights of Zion – because from
there we will hear instruction, and the
word of peace that is to be proclaimed to all the nations – and that peace
is none other than the coming Prince of
Peace, Jesus the Lord.
Whenever
we come into a church or a chapel we climb the mountain of the Lord – to hear his words of peace and encouragement, to be fed by
his spiritual energy in sacramental
form, so that we can come back down the mountain, go outside to our
neighborhoods and live a changed life
– for the good of ourselves, yes, but more importantly for the good of our
families and every person we run across on any given day!
As
we begin, once again, the Advent season
today: let us awake from
sleep – let us be attentive to what we do in this place, even moreso this
coming liturgical year – for our
salvation – the completion of our salvation - is closer than it was last year - and there is reliable prophetic
information that the great Spiritual Reset, inaugurated by Jesus Christ, King
of the Universe, whom we honored just last Sunday – may be truly close at hand.
Only
God the Father knows when he wants us all to join him – in
the meantime – let us never cease giving
him glory and praise and thanks –
in all that we think, say and do in our ordinary activities, because this is
what he wants of us and this is what we will be doing when we get there anyway!
“How you solve a problem like Maria,” is to set her free to be what God intended for
her to be all along; may we search
for and find what God intends us to be all along – even before we
experience the fullness of it in
heaven!
Let
us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.
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