Not much to report this week. Christmas preparations, both logistical and spiritual, continue.
A voice proclaims:
In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD!
Make straight in the wasteland a highway for our God!Every valley shall be lifted up,
every mountain and hill made low;
The rugged land shall be a plain,
the rough country, a broad valley.Then the glory of the LORD shall be revealed,
and all flesh shall see it together;
for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
San Francisco Catholic Worker River Sims meditates on the flipside of that joyful voice, the crucifixion:
I have a wound that is hurting from being stabbed, not the first . . . following the cross puts you in the line of fire.
Teilhard de Chardin, who River quotes:
Once we have fully grasped the sense of the cross, we are no longer in danger of finding life sad and ugly. We shall simply have become more attentive to its barely comprehensible solemnity.
Just noticed that in my photo of the St. Peter’s Advent wreath, the second purple candle is directly behind the unlit pink one. We apologize for the confusion.