What do you long for? What do you await? Isaiah in today’s first reading Isaiah testified to good things to cone and the gospel selection from Matthew portrays Jesus as a great healer and nourisher of the people. In a scene unique to Matthew, Jesus ascends a mountain and the crowds of the “lame, the blind, the deformed, the mute” come to him, and “he cured them all.” The people who witness this scene of healing “glorify the God of Israel.”
To this scene Matthew appends the story of the feeding of the multitude. Jesus is prompted to feed the crowds because: “My heart is moved with pity… for they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to eat.”
Advent invites us to think more deeply about our lives as Christians. The Scriptures we hear at today’s Eucharist and the words and example of faithful followers of Jesus remind us that, above all, we are to bring healing and reconciliation into our fractured world. Jesus will give us peace and joy.
Happy New Month
Osho
