December 2, 2011

Weekly Reflection on the Spirit of the Sacred Heart December 2, 2011

Advent is not only the time in which we name the darkness; it is also the time in which we refuse to dwell in this darkness. We ask for this grace of hope, through Christ our Lord. Amen Maureen Currie, rscj Province of Canada (The full text of Sister Currie's Advent reflection may be found here:  http://www.rscjinternational.org/en/spirituality/reflections/212-december-2007/1610-advent-season-of-hope.html)

For Reflection...    As I hurry and scurry through so much of the holiday season, let me make time to be still, to be quiet and hear the Voice, to reconnect with God's promise and to rekindle the hope. Although creation is unfinished, still in the process of being born, it carries within, a secret hope.  And the hope is this: A day will come when we will be rescued from the pain of our limitation and incompleteness and be given our share in a freedom that can only belong to the children of God. At the present moment all creation is struggling as though in the pangs of childbirth. And that struggling creation includes even those of us who have had a taste of the spirit. We peer into the future with our limited vision, unable to see all that we are destined to be, yet believing because of a hope we carry so deep within.    Maureen Currie, rscj Province of Canada (The full text of Sister Currie's Advent reflection may be found here: http://www.rscjinternational.org/en/spirituality/reflections/212-december-2007/1610-advent-season-of-hope.html)        Photograph of Sprout Creek Farm from Georgie Blaeser, rscj:          http://www.rscjinternational.org/en/spirituality/creative-space-publicmenu-35/155-united-states--photography-by-georgie-blaeser-rscj.html