SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT – C – 2021
ü John announces that a new and better future is
possible if we take refuge under the shadow of the Word of God
ü The birth of Jesus takes place in a concrete
political environment as well as in concrete religious environment.
ü Thus, nothing will fall outside his
redemption.
FIRST READING – Bar 5:1-9
o
The prophet Baruc
invites Jerusalem to remove her robe of sadness and with her we are also
invited to rejoice
o
Jerusalem put on
queen’ clothes as a queen preparing for a celebration
o
Also put a diadem
on your head, why?
o
Because God makes
your splendor shine, because God will give you a new name: Peace-justice
, the glory
of God’s worship.
o
Stand up and see
your children return from all parts of the earth where they had to migrate
seeking asylum.
o
Because God has
decided to lower the pride of those who believe to be important (the mountains
and the hills will be made low) and exalt those who are lowly and poor (the valleys will be
filled to level ground)
o
God makes all
these wonders, as a new Exodus.
o
The reading ends
saying that God will lead Israel, will lead us, in joy, under the light of his
glory, with mercy and justice.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM
126
R. The Lord has done great things for us; we are
filled with joy.
When the LORD brought back the captives of Zion,
we were like men dreaming.
Then our mouth was filled with laughter,
and our tongue with rejoicing.
R. The Lord has done great
things for us; we are filled with joy.
Then they said among the nations,
“The LORD has done great things for them.”
The LORD has done great things for us;
we are glad indeed.
R. The Lord has done great things
for us; we are filled with joy.
Restore our fortunes, O LORD,
like the torrents in the southern desert.
Those who sow in tears
shall reap rejoicing.
R. The Lord has done great things
for us; we are filled with joy.
Although they go forth weeping,
carrying the seed to be sown,
They shall come back rejoicing,
carrying their sheaves.
R. The Lord has done great things
for us; we are filled with joy.
Ø The author
describes the joy of those who after their exile return to their country to
their home.
Ø The pagans from
the countries where they return are also surprised to see them so full of joy.
Ø In this psalm
there is a very beautiful image to describe the joy and the pain of this people:
the time of sowing in which the sower does not know if the seed will germinate
and reach its maturity. But when the time of the harvest comes and it is
abundant he rejoices to see the fruit of his work.
Ø In the same way they
went to the exile weeping, now they come back laughing and singing.
SECOND READING: Phil. 1: 4-6. 8-11
v Paul remembers
with joy and thankfulness the community of Philippi
v They were his partners
in the proclamation of the gospel
v Paul prays that what God has begun in them,
their sanctification, he will continue to complete it.
v May your love grow more
and more and be transformed in a better knowledge and spiritual sensibility.
GOSPEL – Lk 3:1-6
John the Baptist begins
his proclamation in the desert, his call to conversión to prepare the way for
the coming of the One who has to come.
Luke places this beginning of preaching in a
concrete historical time: in politics he mentions the names of the Roman
emperor and the Governor of Judea. In religión he says the name of the high
priest.
He also tells that John
was the son of Zachariah whom we met in the first chapter of his Gospel when
Luke narrated the visitation of Mary to her kinswoman Elizabeth, the mother of
John.
Al lof this helps us to
realice that Jesus is not an imagination, not only a spiritual being, but a
human being, and this human being is the Son of God, the Second Person of the
Most Holy Trinity made flesh like ours; with all our limitations except
sin.
John invites us to lower
our pride, to raise our hope, to acknowledge our sins, to smooth the edges of
our temperament. Why?
to see the salvation that
God is at work in the world. We only nee deyes to acknowledge his presence in
the good that is done in different places of our earth by different persons
from all races, creeds, colors, languages.
COME LORD JESUS!
¡MARANATHA!
CLARETIAN CORNER
Not without
serious setbacks in the long and painful navigation we undertook, we finally
boarded these coasts and the pious inhabitants of Cuba welcomed us with open
arms, receiving every day unequivocal proof of their charity, and expressing
many parents of the most well-regarded in the population by their social
position and strong religiosity alive desires that as soon as possible we
request the due authorization for the canonical and legal establishment of the
holy institute of teaching that we wish to profess.
One of us, Your
Excellency has already undoubtedly
received the crown she was coming to seek,
God thus arranged it by his inscrutable judgments
which we abide by; this and the other trials with which the Lord has visited
us, and proved our vocation. All of this has encouraged us, because in
contradictions we know very well that God works are better manifested.
In the
Peninsula there are not a few young women who wish to associate themselves with
our company, and who only wait to be
called to come to our aid and share with us our work and our glories.
Let Your
Excellency benevolently welcome our plea, hoping that your religiosity will
authorize our foundation in due form by the means established by the sacred
canons and laws of the kingdom that govern these overseas possessions.
Your humblest subjects.
Sr. Maria Antonia Paris Sr.
Maria Josefa Caixal
Sr. María Rosa Gual Sr. Maria Encarnación Gual
Holy Visit of
Cuba, September 25, 1852 (Second part of Letter
2)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
DURAND, Marie-Laure. Croisée d’ogives in Prions en Eglise, 1-31 December,
2021.
PARIS, Ma. Antonia. Letters
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