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Guest blogger: Amy Nee<\/a><\/em>\u00a0– entry originally published at http:\/\/www.catholicsoncall.org\/pregnant-hope<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Scripture Reflection for the Third Sunday of Advent (December 11, 2011)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scripture Readings:
\nIsaiah 61:1-2a, 10-11
\nLuke 1:46-48, 49-50, 53-54
\n1 Thessalonians 5:16-24
\nJohn 1:6-8, 19-28<\/p>\n

When truth is spoken it illuminates more than just the person. The light stretches its filamented fingers, lacing them through history and pointing toward what is to be. Mary, a young unwed woman, accepts the impossible announcement that she will carry not only a child, but the Christ-child. Affirmed by her cousin, Elizabeth, that this strange pregnancy is an act of God, Mary goes beyond the exultation of trusting that her own reputation will be restored and indicates another restoration: the \u201cmighty are brought down from their thrones\u2026the hungry filled with good things\u2026the rich sent empty away.\u201d She joyously reveals God\u2019s plan for a transformed social order.<\/p>\n

Was Mary aware of how closely her words echoed those of the prophet Isaiah? Or was this spontaneous outpouring of the spirit, of joy, simply an irrepressible desire to magnify the God who desires good for all even, perhaps especially, the oppressed. How often the prophets speak of \u201cglad tidings to the poor,\u201d and \u201crelease to the prisoner,\u201d of freedom from captivity and healing. I cannot believe that they were only announcing metaphors. These words reveal the vision of God, the image of a Kingdom in which we are called to be co-creators.<\/p>\n

A consciousness of this Kingdom is shaped in Mary, as Jesus, the one who would embody it, takes shape in her womb. As Mary, Joseph and Jesus faced the hardships of poverty, heard the news of innocents slaughtered, met the continual challenges of daily life, the joy present when Mary proclaimed the Magnificat was likely not so readily felt. The promise that this little boy was the messiah even as he had to be fed and changed, that the hungry would be filled even as stomachs rumbled, that the mighty would be brought down from their thrones even as they abused their power with as much might as ever, are promises that could not have been easy to believe. Mary no doubt had to draw on the prophecies and experiences that she had treasured up; carrying within her the truths of the Kingdom just as she had carried within her the one who would reveal them.<\/p>\n

If advent is a time of preparation, how do we, like John, \u201cprepare the way\u201d in keeping with God\u2019s revealed intention for a world of justice, peace and joy, more a Kin-dom, than a Kingdom, where the disparity between the powerful and the oppressed is leveled? How do we, like Mary, say \u201clet it be with me as you have said\u201d and trust that by the power of the Holy Spirit we are being filled, made whole and holy \u2013 spirit, soul and body? As Christians we are called not only to carry, but to become the Body of Christ. What an incredible mystery! Recognition of this compels us toward Paul\u2019s seemingly impossible directives to \u201crejoice always,\u201d \u201cpray without ceasing,\u201d and \u201cin all circumstance give thanks.\u201d (This from a man who was jailed and persecuted continually; \u2013 how keenly he must have felt the hope of liberation!) Such mystery awakes the need to \u201ctest everything,\u201d using the tools of prayer, action, honest communication \u2013 continually \u201cexperimenting with truth,\u201d as Gandhi called it. Taking care to refrain from making assumptions as to what is good and to always be surprised, to always resist evil, even when it seems to seep into everything around us \u2013 including us. Rabbi and philosopher Abraham Joshua Heschel writes, “An individual dies when they cease to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again. When I see an act of evil I don’t accommodate, I don’t accommodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere. I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.”<\/p>\n

In a world that seems so fixed in cycles of violence, it can be difficult to believe that the promised Kin-dom is coming, let alone that it already is. When we see that drone bombs are dropped on children, that dumpsters overflow with food while millions go hungry, and houses stand empty while millions are homeless; when we cut each other apart with our words, and pollute the earth with careless or even intentional consumption \u2013 how difficult indeed to hope for healing, for liberation, for full stomachs and joyful hearts! It is difficult to face all this and believe that we can live in a way that challenges the corruption and mends the brokenness that surrounds us; that we can embody a transforming way that sets not only the oppressed but the oppressors free. It seems very difficult, impossible even to enter into Kin-dom living. Yet, we wait for Christ to be revealed. As we wait we create communities of faith where we can challenge one another to affirm God\u2019s vision, spoken by the prophets, incarnate in Jesus, and just possibly, in us. As we live amidst the tension of the Everlasting Not Yet we are offered this hope: God has already accomplished things beyond belief, God is with us; with God, nothing is impossible.<\/p>\n

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