Second Week of Advent
Can it be true? Can the wolf live with the lamb, and the calf and the lion cub feed together? Can the cow and the bear make friends and the infant play over the cobra’s hole? Surely not. Our personal experience of the world, and our world-weariness in the face of the news and events that surround us, lead us to think that this can never happen.
But Isaiah, in the first reading of this Sunday’s Mass (Isaiah 11:1-10), presents us with a picture of the unity of all creation, for “on him the Spirit of the Lord rests”. This Spirit of “wisdom and insight, of counsel and power, of knowledge and fear of the Lord” are gifts of the Holy Spirit, equipping us with an inner awareness of God’s life in the relationship of the Holy Trinity.
