As we draw near Christmas, this sense
of our own need and of the whole world’s need of God’s coming – never
greater perhaps than it is now – becomes more intense. In the great
Advent Antiphons which are said in the week before Christmas we seem to hear the
voice of the whole suffering creation saying, Come! give us wisdom, give us
light, deliver us, liberate us, lead us, teach us how to live. Save us.
And we, joining in that prayer, unite our need with the one
need of the whole world. We have to remember that the answer to the
prayer was not a new and wonderful world order but
Painting: Maija Purgaile- Latvia
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