Raise your hand if you have shopped on Black Friday. What’s the longest you ever waited in line? If you spent hours in line, then it was probably because you purchased something that you REALLY wanted. Something you judged was worth waiting for.
Next Sunday, we enter the season of Advent, the season of waiting … anticipating the gift of our Savior. This is the season meant to highlight the deepest desire of every human heart, our longing to see God face-to-face, made possible only by God giving His Son.
“No one has ever seen God. The only Son, God, who is at the Father’s side, has revealed him.” (Jn 1:18)
Isaiah comes very close to seeing God’s “face” when he sees the Lord on the throne with Seraphim above him. Here, Isaiah realizes he has “unclean lips” and needs to be cleansed (Is 6:1-7). We too must recognize the only way to the Father is through the Son, cleansing ourselves by the life born of a virgin and given. So encourage others to join the “Advent line,” living the words we hear during the Communion rite of every Mass, “…as we await the blessed hope and the coming of our Savior Jesus Christ.”
Makana Aiona is the diocesan coordinator for Young Adult Ministry.
