Today's Advent Meditation

Luke 10: 21 - 24

Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, "I give you praise, Father, Lord, and heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him."

Turning to the disciples in private he said, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see. For I say to you, many profits and kings desired to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it."

Reflection:

Evangelical littleness, which Therese of the Child Jesus loved so much was a great light for her: to understand that it is not all about searching to perform great actions but that, on the contrary, it is to joyfully accept all that God asks of us and to do it with the greatest possible intensity of love. Because "Jesus does not look so much at the grandeur of our actions or even their difficulty as much as the love which goes to make up these actions."

If we truly live in an evangelical littleness, what we do is not what is important -- whether we are doing theology or the cooking, it is of little importance. What is important is to do the will of God. If we must do the cooking, that's good. God gives us the grace. If he asks us to sweep up the floor, that's good.

~ Father Marie Dominique Philippe, OP, Priest, Philosophy Professor, Founder of the Community of St. John, from The Daily Gospel with Father Philippe, OP

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