From the Pastor’s Desk::

Waiting seems to be a part of our earthly life. We spend so much of our time hurrying to get somewhere and then----

waiting. Waiting is also an essential part of our spiritual life. But waiting as a child of God, a disciple of Christ is not an

empty waiting. It is a waiting with a promise in our hearts; we wait during Advent for the birth of Jesus. During the

Easter Season we wait for the coming of the Holy Spirit; and after the Ascension of Jesus, we wait for His coming again in

glory. We are always waiting, but it a waiting in the knowledge that we are walking in the footsteps of God.

As I spoke in my homily last weekend, “I”, we are not usually a very patient person/people. Our modern technology has

just made that worse. If the internet is slow by a few seconds, “What’s wrong??” We would not make a very good

Jewish person during the time of the prophet Isaiah. Promises and prophies from God to His people were simply not on

God’s timeline. All of those centuries before the birth of Christ, the people waited for God to fulfill His promise to send

the Messiah.

Waiting for God is an active and hopefully, joyful time. If we get impatient with God, we should stay cool, and look in

the mirror, because God is always waiting for us. As we wait for God, whether for His second coming, or for His answer

to our prayers, our waiting is to be an active waiting in which we live the present moment to the fullest, in order to find

the signs of “Him” whom we are waiting for. Waiting for God’s answer means paying attention to what is happening

right now before our eyes and seeing the first rays of God’s glorious coming.

Our St. Agnes Penance Service will be this Monday, December 11th. Please take the opportunity to receive the sacrament

at the beginning of Advent not at the end. Let the Advent Season be one of prayer and expectation, a longing and

preparing for the coming of the Lord.