Father Bob’s homily 4th Sunday of Advent…
4th Sunday of Advent A
Follow your dreams. It is a platitude for sure, but good advice. It seems it should be accompanied by an inspirational bedroom poster or a meme of a cat trying to do something really difficult. But at some level, we understand that following our dreams is serious and demanding business, one that will require all that we have. Dreams are both our destiny and our challenge, sprung from the center of our lives. And if it is God’s dream we are following, it will ask of us all are hope, faith and love.
Joseph has a dream in today’s Gospel, one of four that in Matthew’s Gospel that serve as a thread that connects the birth and childhood of Jesus. An angel tells Matthew that he should take Mary into his home despite her unexplained pregnancy. He says yes despite the outrageous circumstances described…
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