Advent
Don Paul Curtaz
We: the windows decorated with red and the many, too many lights in the streets of downtown warn that the threat of Christmas is about to pounce on him.
legitimate concerns about how to save a few euro in the ritual of gift unnecessary, and legions of Santas crowding around the dark corners ready to tear ... But we really like this kind of Christmas? All this forced gooders, this collective event to an end?
come to us from the screen images of serene small families to gnaw panettone around a giant fir tree decorated. Who is he alone? Anyone who has experienced a double failure? The many who are not happy with themselves, who is in prison, as we think that this live molasses looming? With pain, precisely. This year we
controversy? No, just reflecting. Healthy realism and a desire to redefine the advent, to understand these four precious weeks, the antidote to another home, an opportunity to look inside.
Because, as in the parable of Luke, we must cling to the rung of the Word of God not to be swept away by consumerism in full, because we need to hear Jeremiah (the pessimistic and whiny!) Which promises the realization of the good that God wants to Israel, for the admonition of Paul urges us to grow in waiting for the coming of Jesus is never a birthday party been so spoiled, ever so upset.
Christmas that must mean silence and wonder before the mystery of a God who comes to grips, has become the unlikely show of good feelings that do not undermine, not convert, but rather anesthetized, calm down. So the presence of God becomes concertante emotional jolt before a baby cute and helpless.
Ah, what a mystery at the heart of man, his thought that abyss that can not see, can not read, can not understand! Disaster, tragedy, anguish and anxiety if we are unable to raise their heads, as Jesus says, raise their heads and stand up for deliverance is near.
Watch and pray, let's stop every day not to be swept away from everyday life, pain, unnecessary by the expectation of what can not save, because we can escape all these things to happen and before the Son of man.
Certainly Jesus is already born, and will return in glory, but now must be born in us, in me, in you, because life is this real, life is serene and mysterious this meeting.
Yes, the advent serves to prepare us for a unique event, to stand before the Lord, because he'll be there, stiamone sure, but we could not be there, suffocated anxiety Christmas, swept away by the delirium daily, defeated and resigned! Prepare to be there that day, at his coming. Why flee to give yourselves to God to love us?
This year, at Christmas, not Introduce with all our gifts given or received, loaded with gold, elegantly dressed, with a house full of four different things almost completely superfluous, with pockets full of junk, looking lost were forced to celebrate someone who does not represent anything for us, with hands full of anything and everything ... this year we give to the poor, we host the lonely, we visit the sick, worry about those who suffer around us, we are generous with those who So ... it has nothing
ourselves to Jesus with empty hands, having won everything, and only then can we grant him to fill out his gifts.
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