First Sunday of Advent
Is 2:1-5; Ps 122; Rom 13:11-14; Mt 24:37-44 (year a)
‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the temple of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways so that we may walk in his paths.”
The season of Advent, in its prayers and readings, invites us to draw closer to the presence of the Lord. What his presence promises was outlined long ago in the prophet Isaiah’s vision of a peace binding the nations, a world in which nation would no longer lift sword against nation. Swords would be hammered into ploughshares, and spears into sickles.
