Integrity... Heeding the Call
First Monday of Advent
Is 2: 1-5; Mt 8: 5-11
Come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord - that is the call that we have this Advent. To go up to the mountain of the Lord. Lord who can climb your mountain, who can dwell in your tent - those who walk blamelessly and do what is right, and speak the truth from their heart, says Psalm 15:2.
This Advent we are going to make a journey, all along reflecting on this: the call to climb the mountain of the Lord, to be blameless, to do right and to speak the truth, not to slander and never to do evil - in short, to be integral.
A first element in this is, recognising the call, the call that we have as children of God, the call that we have to grow more and more acceptable in the eyes of the Lord. Integrity is a call, the call to be like God, to grow into what we are, that is the image and likeness of God.
When we realise the call we have and we have the humility to obey that call, that is what is called faith and miracles happen! A beautiful imagery that the Centurion speaks of today: the imagery of the servants who carry out the will of their master. That is what we are - servants of the Master of the Universe, humble children of the Father of all creation, the One who created us and calls us to be God's children, in our image, in our likeness, in our life and in our very beings.
Let us accept this call and begin our journey, towards Integrity!
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