It is true that elicit factual I am sitting now and then, bending her head down and hand the desperate frown durchwalkend the open window and think how it can be seen on my profile picture. Especially in contemplative Advent time the tendency is to big. And then I thought about the ambivalence to this very time. The Advent - a time which apparently is also repentance and joy time. Let us briefly so a page that joy time. Not only Christians, but most especially in these extraordinarily pious aspect that seems completely forgotten. Sure was the advent in the ancient church, a penance and fasting, but this mainly goes back to the interpretation of Christmas as the eschatological coming of the Lord. First is the advent But just adventus so arrival of God among the people and thus the first opportunity for extended pleasure. We should raise our minds and go to meet the cheering coming Christ! "For I say unto you, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see and have not seen it!" (Matthew 13:17) This is reason enough to blush because of the lukewarm and the hardness of our hearts if we do not expect the spiritual joy of the birth of Christ, we, God wants to do in the next few days must. ( a) it is particularly us joy but in the O antiphons of the last week of Advent handed, which always with a reputation Veni , Come ! . End But we must also address the meticulous preparation for this coming deal, so the only non careless rapture, there may be as little as in the contrite fasting. Just today it says yes to in the Gospel "A voice crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way the Lord make his paths straight!" (Matthew 3:3). This voice is calling John the Täuder calls us to conversion so that we receive the Lord in the right manner. What's for now but reversal for us, which we already have the redemptive baptism received, what it means for all those who consider themselves good Christians, and always seek to deny any sin? What does it mean for the sinners and unbelievers seems clear, here it is the confession, repentance, yes that is purely down to Christ, and finally the turn of the mind on God and his universal love. But just for the other? It is the recognition, opening the eyes, to that event and what it means. It's like the worthy reception of the Eucharistic bread. "The ignorant, it takes more like an animal as an intellectual and a man, because the spirit does not feel like this and never will feel. If a born blind man a loaf of bread served with the request would: eat this bread and you're very beautiful, so those words would give the blind a little part, because he knows not the beauty. To view the size of the gift he promised, would have him before opening his eyes. "(Nicholas of Cusa. Conditions of the worthy reception of Communion) first if he had seen so many beauties, he would eat happily and eagerly. Begirig same joy and we want await the coming of the Lord.
But what does this so the Lord's coming next? It would only open us just before his eyes. In order to understand the importance that is at least in part, "we must look to the person by the coming of the Lord was reality: Maria. Mary belonged to that part of the people of Israel, who was waiting eagerly for the time of Jesus the Saviour's coming. Recounted in the Gospel the words and gestures, we can see how they really expected their lives in the words of the prophets and sank the coming of the Lord with their whole being. But she could not imagine how this coming would be. Perhaps they expected a coming in glory. wanted was more surprising for them the moment when the Archangel Gabriel entered her house and told her that the Lord, the Redeemer, take in her and of her flesh, and bring about his coming by it. We can imagine the embarrassment of the Virgin well. With a great act of faith and obedience, said Maria 'Yes': 'I am the servant of the Lord'. Thus it became a 'dwelling place' of the Lord, a true 'temple' in the world and the 'door' through which the Lord has entered the world.
We have said that this coming was unique: 'the' coming of the Lord. However, there are not only the final coming at the end of time. In a sense, the Lord would come through us constantly to the earth, and he knocks on the door of our heart: Are you willing to give me your flesh, your time, your life? This is the voice of the Lord also wants to enter into our time, he wants to enter through us into the lives of people. He also seeks a living dwelling place in our personal lives. This is the coming of the Lord, and we do during Advent to learn again: The Lord can also come by [and] us "( 2 ) Let us prepare him the way
." Powers up the door. Tor makes' wide, it is the Lord of glory! "
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