We gather this week, maybe holding onto our children
a bit tighter than usual and praying for each other and our families as we prepare
to celebrate the birth of Christ. But as
the events of these past ten days fall into the background of the season, many
find themselves still holding onto the key question:
What can we do?
We know we can’t wave a magic wand and make guns go
away. We can’t snap our fingers and
eliminate violence and evil. We can’t keep thinking that this stuff only
happens someplace else, to other people in other places.
What can we do?
So on this fourth Sunday of Advent, days before
Christmas, we find ourselves praying for a town and its people that are steeped
in deep darkness as they look to regain a spark of that same light. And we
gather around the light of four Advent candles seeking the answer to the same
question:
What can we do?
And maybe, just maybe this Sunday’s gospel sheds
some needed light on that nagging question.Click here for the homily text
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