We start our journey towards Christmas. Advent means going on an inner, personal and communal journey, which will lead us to discover a baby in diapers, it will let us meet a woman and her son, it will give us the possibility to see Mary and the Redeemer.

Along the journey we will realize that there are a lot of signs which will confuse us, signs which will disencourage us, signs which will stop us from continuing. We will find them all along our journey, while walking along our own life, we will face hanger, misery, wars and egotism. We will see how nature is being destroyed, how peoples and cultures are destroyed, and when reflecting upon these situations, the following question will come up inevitably: Is it worth walking?... Is it worth continuing this journey?...

We will discover that it is worth it, that the Lord, who is faithful to his promise, doesn’t disappoint us, that we have to have the courage to be able to see this reality, to walk among shadows because a star has appeared in the sky. A new sign has appeared and we have to decipher what it wants to tell us. A sign which will lead us to a crib.

That’s why the girl guides have to be experts on discovering these signs, they have to be experts on community, they have to be experts on service.


P. Carlos Gómez, O de M    
World Chaplain                                   
 

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