REFLECTION
FROM THE DESK OF THE PASTOR
First
Sunday of Advent is the beginning of the new Liturgical year of the church. The
next four weeks are filled with anticipation. What are we anticipating? For
many the answer could be a party, Christmas bonus or vacation leave and a gift.
All these anticipations are not bad but good. Christ was already born two
thousand years ago and had put at our disposal all that we need to save
ourselves. What is needed now is our personal response. We have to do our part.
One of our responses could be a good preparation of ourselves by which the next
four weeks are about preparing a place in our hearts for the one who will
prepare a place for us with the Father in heaven. The best preparation that we
should do with our lives during this season and the days to come throughout the
year is what Mother Theresa of Calcutta had said, “Give until it hurts”. We are
good people. We do give. Sometimes we give a lot to show that we are generous
and charitable. We even announce it and publish it but we rarely give until it
hurts. If we want to be really good, we have to learn to really give. We cannot
just give what is extra. We have to give up something we think is important to
us and yet others need it all the more.
