Come O Lord in my life.

With this Sunday’s celebration the Lord gives us the grace and joy of opening the new Liturgical Year, starting with its first season of Advent, the period that commemorates the coming of God among us.

In this season of Advent, we shall be granted, once again, to experience the closeness of the One who created the world, who guides history and who cared for us and became a man.

This great and fascinating mystery of the God-with-us, indeed, of the God who becomes one of us, is what we shall celebrate in the coming weeks journeying towards holy Christmas. During Advent we shall open our hearts to the Church which takes us by the hand and, Like the Blessed Mother Mary Most Holy, expresses her motherhood, enabling us to experience the joyful expectation of the coming of the Lord, who embraces us all in his love that saves and consoles.

While our hearts look forward to the annual celebration of Christ’s Birth, the Church’s Liturgy directs our attention to the final goal: our encounter with the Lord who will come in the splendor of glory. For this reason, in every celebration of the Mass, we “announce his death, proclaim his Resurrection until he comes again”, we watch in prayer.

Precisely, the beginning of the Liturgical Year helps us live anew the expectation of God who took flesh in the womb of the Virgin Mary, God who makes himself little, who becomes a child; it speaks to us of the coming of a God who is close, who chose to experience human life from the very beginning in order to save it totally, in its fullness. And so, the mystery of Lord’s Incarnation and the beginning of human life are closely and harmoniously connected and in tune with each other in the one saving plan of God, the Lord of the life of each and every one of us. The Incarnation reveals to us, with intense light and in a surprising way, that every human life, at every stage, has dignity. In comparison with all the other living beings that populate the earth, man has an unmistakable originality. He is presented as the one unique being, endowed with intelligence and free will, as well as consisting of material reality. He lives simultaneously and inseparably in both the spiritual and the corporal dimension.

We are therefore spirit, soul, and body. We are part of this world, tied to the possibilities and limitations of our material condition, while at the same time open to an infinite horizon, able to converse with God and to welcome him within us. We are active in earthly realities and through them, we can perceive God’s presence and to reach out to Him, Truth, Goodness, and absolute Beauty.

Let us pray for the “unborn life”, let us pray for all the new mothers to follow the example of the Virgin Mary, who welcomed the Son of God made man with her faith, within her maternal womb, with her attentive care, with her nurturing support, vibrant with love.