Advent day 3

Luke 10:21-24         Advent day 3

           Perhaps some presents have started to appear under the Christmas tree. Is your name on one of them?  Are you tempted to give it a little shake? check out the weight of the package, the shape? What could it be?

             You'll have to wait until Christmas. So true. We are waiting for the light, preparing ourselves for some great gift that has been given to us, is promised to us by God because He loves us. Do we know exactly what it entails? Are we ready to receive the light, the light of life, the gift of the Christ child and all that it entails, symbolizes and is? 

             We are reading, meditating, praying, anticipating it. Many prophets and kings desired to see what you see. Many desire to see what you will see. What gift is God preparing for you and  just for you? When I say that we are preparing, it is not simply for Christmas Mass, some communal celebration in our church.  The lighting of the Menorah is not just something we do to celebrate what happened so long ago. God is still giving us light and adding light to our lives. 

               The gift that God is preparing for us is not communal. The gift is for you and you alone. What you receive is prepared especially for you. And, this is really important, must be unwrapped by you.

God is preparing the gift of light, we are preparing here in this Gospel reading and we in our prayers are preparing to receive it. As we prepare, let us us resolve to actually open the gift God is offering us.

We prepare to receve during Advent, will we open our present?

                 

Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said,

"I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,

for although you have hidden these things

from the wise and the learned

you have revealed them to the childlike.

Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will.

All things have been handed over to me by my Father.

No one knows who the Son is except the Father,

and who the Father is except the Son

and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him."

Turning to the disciples in private he said,

"Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.

For I say to you,

many prophets and kings desired to see what you see,

but did not see it,

and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it."