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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE JOY OF ADVENT \nBy Thierry Maertens & Jean Frisque \n◊◊◊ \nThe announcement of John the Baptist’s birth has put in relief the salient \ntraits of his personality. The circumstances of his birth hardly add new \nelements. Neither the birth nor the circumcision are told for themselves. They \nserve only as a framework for the imposition of the name already proclaimed by \nthe angel. \nThanks to the unexpected agreement of Zechariah and Elizabeth\, the \nname of John the Baptist appears to be willed by heaven. The healing of \nZechariah’s dumbness too is a sign of a heavenly manifestation. Luke dwells on \nthe astonishment and joy caused by the manifestation. These are characteristic \nsymptoms of messianic times. The swiftness with which the news spreads\, \nimage of the swiftness of the spread of the gospel\, is also a sign of the presence of \nheaven among human beings. \nAt the very time these two first chapters of Luke were first put out\, the \ncontemporary world was singularly bereft of joy. The Jewish nation was \ncrushed under the heel of an occupying power\, while the Greek peoples were \nreduced by apathy to alienation. \nAre things very different now\, with uneasiness on every horizon\, in a \nworld where the majority of people are ignored and alienated?… Yet Luke’s \nmessage remains valid. Joy resides in the assurance that one has communion \nwith God\, and that God is present even in human events. It is not however an \nimmediate consequence of belief in God’s presence. The God of the Jansenists \nis not a joyful God\, nor is the God of the pious. The God who gives joy is the God \nwho is present in the whole texture of a human being’s life\, in secular activities\, \nin the most private thoughts and the deepest encounters\, in sufferings that \nsurmount discouragement. The joy of messianic times is this joy.
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