Daily Reflection: Tuesday, December 5

Tuesday of the First Week in Advent

…Although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned, you have revealed them to the childlike.  (Lk 10:21)

I think the Lord’s childlike always have a reason for well grounded hope.  There are such hopeful people, even in Israel and Palestine today.  The cow and the bear shall be neighbors. (Is 11:7 from today’s first mass reading) 

Justice shall flower in his days,

and profound peace, till the moon be no more.

May he rule from sea to sea,

and from the River to the ends of the earth.   (Ps 72:7-8)

The militant Palestinian slogan, “From the river to…,” bears an eerie resemblance to this verse from Psalm 72, but its meaning is contrary to the psalm.   

The Christ is God’s Justice; his rule we seek.

Pray to be among the childlike who can see what others cannot.  ``

John Frambes, ofm

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