First Sunday of Advent

 

The Comings of Christ

Advent is a time of Preparation because Christ is coming!

We prepare for His First coming at Christmas.

This coming seems to take up most of our time.

Usually for all the wrong reasons.

We spend most of our time decorating and buying presents

Rather than preparing to celebrate the Time when God became Flesh

And was born in Bethlehem.

Then there is the Last Coming.

When the Trumpets will sound

And Christ will come in glory on the clouds

When will He send out His angels to the Four Corners of the earth to separate the sheep from the goats.

The good from the bad.

And then there is the Middle Coming of Christ.

Jesus promised that He would come back to us and take us to Himself;

So that where He is, we also will be.

On that day one is taken and one is left behind.

Two men are out in the fields and one is taken and one is left behind.

Two women are grinding grain and one is taken and one is left behind.

That is the Day when the Lord comes for someone we love and takes them with Him;

And we are left behind.

Everyday Jesus comes and takes someone to Himself and His Father’s House

And leaves someone behind.

And He leaves those left behind,

His Body and Blood, His very Self

That we receive at every Mass at Communion;

To comfort us and remind us

That one day He will return for us

And take us to Himself.

So that where He is and all of our loved ones,

We too will be one day!