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“A father’s communication with his many children… that is one of the most agreeable occupations of my life” 1857
Last night at RCIA we listened and talked about Peter being the rock the Church was built on – who even though he was a fisherman, unsophisticated and probably not overly educated loved Jesus with all that he was. It was in the light of that great love that he is pictured as holding the keys to heaven. An ordinary man whose heart transformed him. And I think of Eugene, who himself was transformed and who founded a congregation., within the greater family of the Church.
I look this morning at us members of this wondrous family and whose light joins that of Christians around the world this Advent. “…it has been like a celestial light that has come to invest [our] souls and has made [us] know the truth.”
I am reminded this morning of how Jesus came into this world – a member of the Trinity, the son of God who fulfilled his earthly destiny by giving his life on the cross for all of us – for all ages. And I am reminded of the story of the little shepherd who approached the baby in the manger, having nothing to give to the baby except himself and who Mary asked to hold Jesus for a moment as she received the gift of the Wise Men. That gift of himself as a shepherd receiving perhaps the greatest gift of them at the first Christmas.
It is Advent and that is what we are preparing for – the Child born in the poorest of conditions who lives on in each of us, incarnated with in the deepest part of ourselves.
O come, O come Emmanuel…