Season of Advent 9

Mother Mary's Narration of her Christmas Dream to Joseph

(As we prepare for the coming of the Lord the reading of this imaginary dream will open our eyes to the meaning of Christmas celebration)

"Joseph, I had a dream. I don't understand it, not really, but I think it was about a birth day celebration of our Son. I think that was what it was all about. The people had been preparing for it for about four weeks. They had decorated the house and bought new clothes. They'd gone shopping many times and bought elaborate gifts. It was peculiar, though, because the presents weren't for our Son. They wrapped them in beautiful paper and tied them with lovely bows and stacked them under a tree. Yes, a tree, Joseph, right in their house. They'd decorated the tree also.

The branches were full of glowing balls and sparkling ornaments. There was a figure on the top of the tree. It looked like an angel. Oh, it was beautiful. Every one was laughing and happy. They were all excited about the gifts. They gave the gifts to each other, but not to our Son. Oh! I don't think they even knew Him. They never mentioned His name. Doesn't it seem odd for people to go to all that trouble to celebrate some one's birthday if they don't know Him? I had the strangest feeling that if our Son had gone to this celebration He would have been intruding. Everything was so beautiful, Joseph, and everyone so happy, but it made me want to cry. How sad for Jesus -- not to be wanted at His won birthday party. I'm glad it was only a dream. How terrible, Joseph, if it had been real!"

(Author unknown)

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Season of Advent 8

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"Every year the Church celebrates this holy season of ADVENT.

Every year we roll up all our NEEDS and YEARNINGS and faithful EXPECTATATIONS into one word: "COME".

And yet, what a strange word this is! After all, YOU HAVE ALREADY COME and pitched your tent among us. YOU have ALREADY shared our life with its joys, its pains and sufferings...

Could you approach any NEARER to us than you did when you became the "SON OF MAN"... one of us in all things...

In spite of all this we still pray, "COME LORD JESUS, come!

Slowly a light is beginning to dawn...!

But still you will COME AGAIN, because the fact that you have already come must continue to be revealed ever more clearly. It will become progressivley more manifest to the world that the heart of all things is already transformed, because you have taken them all to your HEART!

YOU MUST CONTINUE TO COME MORE AND MORE. What already has taken place in the roots of all reality must be made more and more apparent."

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"The Advent mystery is the beginning of the end of all in you that is not yet Christ." (Thomas Merton)

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