Are We Willing and Able to Let Christ In?

On this first sign of advent, we look forward to the definitive coming of christ at the end of time. For christians, history has a trajectory. Is not just one thing after another. Nor is it just a acyclical, you know, return of the same a constant repetition over and over again. It's moving toward its culmination. And what's it about? It's about christ's second coming, we call it,. When he comes adventus at the end-time to bring all things to his fulfilment and culmination. With that in mind, let's turn now to our third reading the gospel, jesus speaking to his disciples, listen, there will be