December 14, 2014

Third Sunday of Advent, Gaudete Sunday

Luke, Chapter 1, verse 50:
50 His mercy is from age to age to those who fear him.

Today is also the third Sunday of Advent called Gaudete Sunday and we light the rose colored candle because we are rejoicing in that Christ is drawing near with his birth in ten days.  We are to rejoice just as Mary did in her Canticle of Praise when she entered the house of Zechariah.

“My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my savior. For he has looked upon his handmaid’s lowliness; behold, from now on will all ages call me blessed. The Mighty One has done great things for me, and holy is his name. His mercy is from age to age to those who fear him. He has shown might with his arm, dispersed the arrogant of mind and heart. He has thrown down the rulers from their thrones but lifted up the lowly. The hungry he has filled with good things; the rich he has sent away empty. He has helped Israel his servant, remembering his mercy, according to his promise to our fathers, to Abraham and to his descendants forever.”

I would like to focus on the words from “age to age”.  In physics, spacetime (also space–time, space time or space–time continuum) is any mathematical model that combines space and time into a single interwoven continuum.[1]  As I understand it what has been done in the past and in the future continues forever rippling through time and space from “age to age”.  If this is the case let us follow Mary’s example and develop in ourselves Holy fear through her virtues of: humility, generosity, chastity, patience, self-control and of course love.



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