As we celebrate the Fourth Sunday of Advent, a simple reflection:
“The liturgy of Advent…helps us to understand the fullness
of the value and meaning of the mystery of Christmas.
It is not just about commemorating the historical event,
which occurred some 2,000 years ago in a little village of Judea.
Instead, we must understand that our whole life should be an ‘advent’,
in vigilant expectation of the Christ’s final coming.”
– Pope St. John Paul II
Imagine what your life would be like if you awoke tomorrow morning and found that there was no water coming into your home. What would you do? Probably you'd get a few gallons of bottled water, and feel a bit grungy and inconvenienced until the water came back on. Other than that, things would really be OK. But what if the water never came back on? And what if the stores ran out of bottled water? What if the nearest drainage ditch became the only place we could get any water at all? … Help The Thirsty
