ADVENT IN MARY’S SENSE: POINTER TO POST-CHRISTMAS REALITY.
Mary, the mother of Jesus invites us to reclaim a more meaningful Advent and the reason for the Christmas season. The Gospel reading today from Luke 1 presents Mary as our model, our example, our witness, our sister, our mother who voices for us a pattern of Christmas expectancy and Christmas response. Mary embodies our Christmas feelings, our Christmas questions, and our Christmas pondering, not only in response to the time leading up to Christmas but also in our post-Christmas realities. In preparation for our post-Christmas reality, ‘the season of Advent invites us to move outside our liturgical constraints...
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