Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

This Sunday, We Look at the Church and Say: ‘Come, Lord Jesus! Enough Is Enough’…

Lord Jesus, please come. Enough is enough. We don’t understand what you’re doing. Are you avoiding us? Why? We need you here. Surely you have noticed! We make our own the urgent words of your prophets and evangelists on the First Sunday of Advent Year B. There, we see that you told us what it would be like, waiting for you. You were right. “It is like a man traveling abroad,” you say in Sunday’s Gospel. “You do not know when the lord of the house is coming, whether in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or in the morning.” The Church expected you in the morning…