Tuesday of the 2nd week of Advent (Year I)
Saint Nicholas, Bishop
Isaiah 40:1-11 | Psalm 95(96):1-3,10-13 | Matthew 18:12-14
Isaiah 40:1-11 instantly reminded me of Michael Joncas’ A Voice Cries Out, which is based on this very passage:
“Prepare a way for the Lord, make straight a highway for God.” I can’t help but think that the words are meant as a reminder to prepare ourselves to receive our Lord and Saviour when He comes again, by bulldozing all “crooked paths” of temptation and sin from our lives, and laying down a single straight 8-lane spiritual autobahn, the Way of Truth and Love.
This is the place, and now is the time to renew our commitment to Christ…for we do not know the hour when the Son of Man is coming.
Wait for the Lord, whose day is near;
Wait for the Lord, keep watch, take heart!
Amen.