Dear brothers and sisters!
Today, the first Sunday of Advent , the Church begins a new liturgical year , a new journey of faith, on the one hand, commemorates the event of Jesus Christ and, second, it opens to its final fulfillment. It is precisely this dual perspective lives season of Advent , looking both to the first coming of the Son of God, when he was born of the Virgin Mary, is the he returns in glory when he comes "to judge the living and the dead," as we say in I .
on this suggestive theme of 'waiting' I would now like to reflect briefly, because it is a deeply human aspect, when faith becomes, so to speak, one with our flesh and our cuore.L ' waiting, the wait is a dimension that runs through all of our personal, family and society. The wait is present in thousands of situations, from the smallest to the most important and trivial, that involve us completely and deeply. Consider, among them, waiting for a child by of the two spouses, to that of a relative or friend who comes to visit us from afar, we think, for a young waiting the outcome of an upcoming exam or a job interview, in relationships, to ' pending the meeting with the beloved, the response to a letter, or of accepting a pardon ... You could say that man is alive as long waits, until his heart is in the hope alive. And the man recognizes his expectations: our "stature" moral and spiritual can be measured by what you expect, from what they hope.
Each of us, therefore, especially at this time that prepares us for Christmas, may wonder: I, what do you expect? What, at this point in my life, my heart is stretching? And this same question can be put at the level of family, community, nation. What do you expect, together? What unites our aspirations, what unites them? In the time preceding the birth of Jesus, Israel was very strong in the expectation of the Messiah, an anointed descendant of King David, who was finally freed the people from all moral and political slavery and established the Kingdom of God but no one would never imagined that the Messiah would be born from a humble girl who was Mary's betrothed righteous Joseph. Even she would have thought, yet in his heart waiting for the Savior was so great, his faith and his hope were so ardent that he could find in her a worthy mother. Moreover, God himself had prepared before the ages. There is a mysterious correspondence between the expectation of God and of Mary, the creature was "full of grace" is totally transparent to the loving plan of the Most High. Learn from her, Woman of Advent, to live the daily routine with a new spirit, with the deep feeling of expectation that only the coming of God can fill.
on this suggestive theme of 'waiting' I would now like to reflect briefly, because it is a deeply human aspect, when faith becomes, so to speak, one with our flesh and our cuore.L ' waiting, the wait is a dimension that runs through all of our personal, family and society. The wait is present in thousands of situations, from the smallest to the most important and trivial, that involve us completely and deeply. Consider, among them, waiting for a child by of the two spouses, to that of a relative or friend who comes to visit us from afar, we think, for a young waiting the outcome of an upcoming exam or a job interview, in relationships, to ' pending the meeting with the beloved, the response to a letter, or of accepting a pardon ... You could say that man is alive as long waits, until his heart is in the hope alive. And the man recognizes his expectations: our "stature" moral and spiritual can be measured by what you expect, from what they hope.
Each of us, therefore, especially at this time that prepares us for Christmas, may wonder: I, what do you expect? What, at this point in my life, my heart is stretching? And this same question can be put at the level of family, community, nation. What do you expect, together? What unites our aspirations, what unites them? In the time preceding the birth of Jesus, Israel was very strong in the expectation of the Messiah, an anointed descendant of King David, who was finally freed the people from all moral and political slavery and established the Kingdom of God but no one would never imagined that the Messiah would be born from a humble girl who was Mary's betrothed righteous Joseph. Even she would have thought, yet in his heart waiting for the Savior was so great, his faith and his hope were so ardent that he could find in her a worthy mother. Moreover, God himself had prepared before the ages. There is a mysterious correspondence between the expectation of God and of Mary, the creature was "full of grace" is totally transparent to the loving plan of the Most High. Learn from her, Woman of Advent, to live the daily routine with a new spirit, with the deep feeling of expectation that only the coming of God can fill.
Benedict XVI, Angelus , November 28, 2010
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