Dear parish family,
Blessings of peace and joy to you.
Welcome to the second week of advent. A man appeared before a judge for failing to keep the child support responsibility for his two-year-old boy. And when the judge asked him why he had failed to support the child, he answered, “The boy doesn’t look like me.” Then the judge responded, “If so, take care of him till he looks like you.”
The message of John the Baptist for the weekend can be likened to the one above. When he started his ministry, John was heard in the desert shouting, “Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.” The central idea underlying John’s preaching is repentance and conversion. John calls people to make changes in their lives in anticipation of the advent of the Messiah. Like the judge in the story above, John is asking us to do what makes us look like God.
During this advent, John’s voice comes to us again to challenge us to be and look like God. Here are some simple actionable activities we can engage to mirror our Father in heaven:
Happy advent!