The Coming of Christ in Advent

Advent marks the time in the Church liturgical calendar to spiritually prepare for the coming of Christ

The Light who is the Redeemer breaks into a darkened world.

St. John tells us “He was in the world and the world came into being through Him; yet the world did not know Him (Jn 1:10).

There has never been a time when Christ was not in the world. As He is one and the same with God the Father, Christ has been drawing humanity to Himself since before the dawn of creation.

Never has there been a time when Christ is not, or a time before He was not.

Christ is eternal – God from God – Light from Light, True God and True Man – through whom all things were made.

Hence, the sent Son of God was in the world before he became Incarnate of the Virgin Mary.

And by the power of the Holy Spirit, takes on the flesh of humanity to carry out the divine mission willed by the Father.

The saving mission is to reconcile the sins of the world as Redeemer.

It is to the young Virgin Mary that Christ comes first.

Blessed Mary courageously steps into the unknown, accepting all that God asks.

God conceived Mary in his mind before she was in the world.

Accepting not only to be the Mother of Christ, but the Cross she knew awaited her too.

With perfect surrender to the will of God, Mary answers,

“Behold the Handmaiden of the Lord, May it be done to me according to your word.”

And we now we wait for the coming of the King.