THE WORD IN ADVENT
Fourth Monday in Advent - December 22, 2025
1 Samuel 1: 24-28; Luke 1: 46-56
We are in the last days of preparation towards the great event of Christmas, the commemoration of the Incarnational moment. The incarnation is in fact an inversion, an inversion willed by God. The Word presents to us the significance of this inversion as Reign-version!
The Reign, the hope of the pilgrims, is in fact, a logic of inversion: the poor empowered, the lowly raised, the weak strengthened, the hungry filled... the Reign is the inversion of the popular world order, the so-called normal of the world, the common logic approved - all for the sake of establishing the sovereignty of God.
This inversion is the fruit of the Lord's promise - we see this expressed in the first reading with Hannah's song, that great song expressing the praises of the Lord, lovingly and gratefully adapted my our Blessed Mother in her magnificat.
The inversion is the sign of Lord's supremacy - the last word is of the Lord. There could be people and the whole society holding up a system, but what really matters is what God has willed. When the system and the Divine will do not coincide, there is always a conflict that humanity experiences and a crisis it has to handle.
The inversion is the Lord's marvelous ways - the incredible ways of the Lord, the inconceivable grandeur of God's plan, the mystery of God's design is the real structure of the Reign. The Reign is not just an extension of what we think is good or better... but it is an inversion, it is a total and absolute shift of excellence proper to God's ways!
The Root of Jesse... is a symbol of radicality of God's promise... which is certain to come true. It may delay, but shall not delay anymore... it shall certainly come alive in the Word becoming flesh.
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