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For each day of Advent, we offer reflections from Advent With the Saints by Greg Friedman, O.F.M. Click here to go to the main calendar page. You can also use the link in the upper right corner of this column.
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How do we get from the First Sunday of Advent to Christmas without detouring into the traffic-jammed regions of Distraction, Frustration or All-out Anxiety? Gloria Hutchinson assures us that if we "walk mindfully, taking one Scripture-formed step at a time, we can get there from here in a spirit of calm readiness and joyful anticipation." These Day-by-day Advent Reflections can help to sharpen our awareness and bring a reflective calm into a hectic season.
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The celebration of Christmas is not a sentimental waiting for a baby to be born, but much more an asking for history to be born, according to Franciscan Father Richard Rohr, author of Preparing for Christmas With Richard Rohr: Daily Meditations for Advent. Catholics, he says, do the gospels no favor when making Jesus, the eternal Christ, into a perpetual baby, a baby able to ask for little or no adult response.
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