Reflection for Monday, 4th week of Advent

By

Fr. Aloysius Santiago sdb
Director, Social Action Movement, Don Bosco Bidar

 Gospel Verses 

 Luke 1:5-25  

God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news. And now you will be silent and not able to speak until the day this happens, because you did not believe my words, which will come true at their appointed time.”

Meanwhile, the people were waiting for Zechariah and wondering why he stayed so long in the temple. When he came out, he could not speak to them. They realized he had seen a vision in the temple, for he kept making signs to them but remained unable to speak. 

When his time of service was completed, he returned home. After this his wife Elizabeth became pregnant and for five months remained in seclusion.  “The Lord has done this for me,” she said. “In these days he has shown his favor and taken away my disgrace among the people

 Meditation on the Word of God 

It requires patience to wait for something to happen or for something to arrive.

So if we had ordered a meal at a restaurant or ordered something online, we just have to wait for it arrive.

But we have some certainty that it will arrive, unless there were unforeseen circumstances.

For Manoah and his wife in the 1st reading, and for Zechariah and Elizabeth in the gospel, they had waited for children to come about in their marriage.

At first, they had waited in expectation. But as time went on, their patience was put to the test, and their hope was slowly fading away.

There was no assurance that they will have children, but they still kept faith with each other, and together they kept their faith in God.

In the end they were rewarded with sons who would have a mission in a saving plan of God.

As we enter into the last week of Advent, let us also remember that things happen in God’s time.

As much as we need to have patience, we also need to have faith to believe that as we wait, God is preparing something beautiful and wonderful for us.

So let us pray as we wait patiently for God to reveal His beautiful and wonderful plan for us.


        GOD BLESS YOU

Good morning. Have a nice day.