The Second Sunday of Advent
Bar 5:1-9; Phil 1:3-6 & 8-11; Lk 3:1-6 (Year C)
Israel’s long history was inextricably intertwined with the desert wilderness that hemmed her southern and eastern boundaries. The long journey from Egyptian enslavement to the freedom of the Promised Land had been spent in the wilderness. Here the people had experienced the insecurity of a restless people with no belonging. In that same wilderness they had come to understand a loving God as their one enduring place of rest.
