The Advent calendars I knew as a child had little card
doors you prized open revealing an image and a verse relating to the story of
Jesus’ birth. An online Advent calendar has no such physical doors, but might
yet open onto vistas, perhaps for the first time, perhaps familiar friends.
Today is Christmas Eve, the threshold we cross-over
between Advent and Christmas. The X that marks the spot of X-mas, of the Mass in
Celebration of the Birth of the Christ. Today, past, present, and future coincide
and we find ourselves in the presence of the One who Was and Is and Is-To-Come.
On this night the angels sang/sing/hold their breath in readiness for the first
note, and we press into that holy intake, as fit to burst as any child on
Christmas morning.
Come, Lord Jesus.
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