Advent is Not Merely A Month Per Year

All our life we are in Advent, since we Christians are still waiting for the one yet to come. Then only will it be said that we were right. Before then, however, the world seems to be right. The world will laugh while you are crying, the Lord says.

We, too, are sitting in prison: in the prison of death, of unanswered questions, of our own weakness, of our own pitiful state, of misery and the tragedy of life. We will not get out alive. But daily we will want to send off messengers of our faith and of our prayer to the one…