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Monday Dec 02, 2019
Homily for December 2, 2019
Monday Dec 02, 2019
Monday Dec 02, 2019
When we're sick, we often find our joints are aching, our heads are pounding, our stomachs have declared war on us - but we know that it's only a matter of waiting out the cold or flu. In time, we know we'll be feeling better.
But then there are times when the waiting is more uncertain, more anxious, more desperate - we don't know how this suffering will end; we are terrified at what these symptoms may mean. We wait for the lab results, we wait to see if the medicine will work, we wait for the surgery to be completed, we wait for a cure.
And sometimes we are left waiting for God.
Waiting for healing, waiting for change, waiting for God is the season of Advent. The centurion in today's Gospel is the model of Advent waiting; he has waited through his servant's care, he now waits for a cure. But his faith enables him to wait with hope. This Gentile's faith enables him to dare to hope that God will act in the person of this Jesus. With a rare combination of dignity and humility, he asks Jesus to speak a word of healing.
This season of Advent calls us to hope, that our waiting, that our yearning for healing, for peace, for salvation will come.
Let us pray…
Come, O Christ, Healer and Worker of Wonders! May we trust in your Word to heal our afflictions and illnesses; may we hope in your light to shatter the darkness of our despair and pain. Let us live the Advent of our lives with faith in your compassion and hope in your grace. +
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