This week’s gospel story from Luke is one of the most beautiful and touching, building up to and preparing us for the long-awaited birth of Jesus the messiah. If you have ever visited the Vatican Museum, you may have seen a lovely Advent image of the pregnant Mary, wearing a long pink dress.
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Br Huy, a Redemptorist, has created a song called Mary and the Hope of Advent. Please listen, as we journey through the season of Advent, a time of repentance and looking ahead.
Fresh from her encounter with the angel Gabriel, “Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country” to visit her cousin Elizabeth who was herself pregnant in her old age. This meeting of two Spirit-filled pregnant women, seeking to understand what God is doing in their lives, is remarkable in the way it captures their very human interaction and their prophetic voices.
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Jokes Why wait until Christmas Day for the corny jokes in the crackers? Let’s start now. Merry Christmas! How is Christmas exactly like your job? You do all the work and some fat guy in a suit gets all the credit. How do you know when Santa’s around? You can always sense his presents.
I was once surprised to hear one of my students describe Jesus as a “wowser” and Christianity as the world’s foremost proponent of “wowserism”. While I might be able to understand why a young person might express the latter sentiment (albeit unjustly), I find it difficult to see how anyone could accuse Jesus of being a “wowser”.
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The two themes of Sunday’s readings are repentance and joy. We do not usually associate these two themes with each other, but they go hand in glove in the kingdom of God.
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Jokes I saw a friend who had a black eye. I asked him how he got it. He said he was standing in church last week and he noticed that the lady in front had her dress accidentally tucked into her underwear. He thought he’d do her a favour and leant forward and pulled the
