December 8th, 2024 (2 Sunday Advent C)
Dear brothers and sisters,
as we continue this advent time the Church puts in front of us today the figure of John the Baptist. John the Baptist is, “the voice of one crying out in the wilderness” saying to prepare the way of the Lord. This is what the Church wants to tell us today that the Lord is coming. All this time of Advent wants to show us how we are called to live our lives. We are called to always live waiting for the coming of Christ. The problem is that too often because of the routine of life we forget about it and we do not wait for anything to happen or to change in our life. Life without this tension and expectancy for God to come becomes very boring and depressing. When we stop waiting for God and Jesus Christ, we lose the sense of transcendence, and everything becomes flat and meaningless in our life. When life becomes, boring, a routine and meaningless people look for a way to escape and at times it ends in real tragedies as suicide. The Church wants to save us from this existential boredom and reawaken our hope. The Church like John shouts to us today that the Lord is near, to rejoice and to prepare the way for him. This is the cry in the midst of the wilderness of today and the desert and the aridity of the world and of our heart. Because of sin we have all become arid and dry and our lives lose meaning. Well John the Baptist and the Church tell us today not to lose hope Christ is coming now to save us. Christ wants to bring back meaning to our life and water to irrigate the arid desert. Christ wants to pour his spirit into our hearts to destroy sin in us this loss of meaning we experience so often. God wants to fill us with his glory to help us see that the Lord is already here he has already come this is the shout of John, the voice of the Church crying out to us: “wake up from your sleep and your aridity, do not be sad, rejoice, the Lord is already here!”
Peace, Fr. Nicholas Pastor