Second Tuesday of Advent: Jesus is to come
Just boring. Every single year, the same Christmas tree with the same Christmas baubles and the same tinsel comes and places itself near the fireplace. And every single year, everyone is required to be happy for Christmas eve and to eat the same Christmas pudding with one’s family, just because Jesus Christ comes to live among us again and again …
But, as it is never the will of our Father in heaven that one should be lost, it might be that Jesus Christ has to go in search of us again and again. Actually, Jesus Christ is the one who is and who was and who is to come (Rev 1:8). To come to us is certainly part of his own nature.
Therefore, one might think that one has more time to start following Jesus Christ. Jesus himself might come again later to call him. Or, in a similar way, one can think that one is not worthy to welcome Jesus Christ to one’s home today. But Jesus tells us today solemnly: if the Father, through him, finds the one who strayed, it gives him a great joy. And this joy of God is to be shared with all of us. That’s why, we mustn’t wait for another time, and mustn’t be afraid. Jesus comes to us, to share with us the joy of God. And this joy might also begin with a delicious slice of a Christmas pudding!
– fr Jean-Baptiste Régis OP
Readings of the day: Is 40:1-11. Ps 95:1-3,10-13. Mt 18:12-14.
