Ran across this this morning in my quiet time and found it TOO good to not pass on.
Take a look:
"Advent is concerned with that very connection between memory and hope which is so necessary to man. Advent’s intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became a child. This is a healing memory; it brings hope. The purpose of the Church’s year is continually to rehearse her great history of memories, to awaken the heart’s memory so that it can discern the star of hope.…
It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope."
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Seek That Which Is Above,1986
Can't think of a better way to begin this new day that God has placed each of us in.
So may you walk through this day, not run through it. And in the process, may you see that the doors we approach are very much open to the hope that God has given to each of us through Jesus Christ, His Son.
Amen!
