Tag: Advent and American commercialism

Thomas Merton’s Christ has come, uninvited

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We are checking things off of our list: Christmas trees and lights, tinsel and ornaments, garland and mistletoe, presents, Christmas cards and fancy dishes for the family meal of the year.  We are checking Santa’s list twice and ensuring that we purchase gifts for the naughty and the nice.  Because ’tis the season and all […]

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Advent: Expectations

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Greetings in the name of the One that we expected, Jesus the Christ, It’s Wednesday.  I almost forgot the day of the week, replaced with the designation of Christmas Eve.  We are almost there, almost over the hump. Tomorrow, we will open gifts and the wait will be over, right? It’s not “beginning to look […]

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