[The] Advent we keep is not a poetic make-believe, or a nostalgic historical pageant, or even an exercise in remembering our roots, although this might have value. The coming of God in Christ still continues, and will be consummated in a coming and a gift beyond the stretch of our hope. We are an Advent people. The season of Advent celebrates in symbolic form a reality of our own lives and of all men’s destiny with God, because he who came in weakness in Bethlehem is he who will come again.
28 November 2018, The Tablet
The living spirit
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