PRAYER: Christmas Eve by Mitch Finley
From Season of Promises Marriage, which seems to us to be such a wonderful consummation of love, is only a faint shadow, a kind of symbol, of the wedding of the Spirit of God to humanity; and it is from that wedding that Christ is born into the world. (Caryll Houselander, The Reed of God) Christmas Eve, the day before the deep and holy Feast of the Incarnation. The day before. Can it be? Is Advent over already? “Time went by so quickly,” wrote singer/songwriter John Stewart, “that I didn’t see it go. / But I never saw it coming so how was I to know?” That’s life, and that’s Advent. Over so quickly. Time, sacred time. Weeks gone so soon, and now we verge on Christmas. It’s such a great mystery that we find [...]