If it were possible to sum up Advent spirituality in one word that word would be expectancy.
As human beings we are always reaching out towards a future with hope.
For that reason Jesus could say of his cousin, John the Baptist, ‘I tell you solemnly, of all the children born of woman, a greater than John the Baptist has never been seen’.
John deserved to be spoken of in such words because he ushered in the era when the rich compassion of our kind and merciful God would express itself in the gift of his son to our world.
In this new era, the least of us is the equal of John the Baptist because his expectations were met.
The light of Christ now shines upon us and our world.
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