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Progress Toward God First Sunday of Advent/A November 28, 2004 12:15 P.M Rev. Paul A. Hottinger Progress toward God First Sunday of Advent/A November 28, 2004 12:15 p.m. Is 2:1-5; Rom 13:11-14; Mt 24:37-44 (Our role in creation) “Therefore, stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come.” It is now uncontroversial to propose that the earth will come to an end. In fact the biblical ideas of the birth and death of the universe, shocking to the ancient world, fit in very well with the ideas of modern physics. What physics does not reveal, however, is the conviction that there is a fundamental purpose driving the universe. St. Paul refers to this purpose as “God filling the universe in all its parts” and “God becoming all in all.” One recent philosopher calls this the “omega point.” The New Testament calls this the “return of Christ,” or the parosia, a Greek word meaning “visitation,” or even eschaton, a Greek word meaning “the last thing.” The point is life as God created it is not static. It cannot stand still. It must move forward. And this is true in everyone’s personal life as well as the whole life of creation itself. However, this idea of progress toward God has two rival ideas in our contemporary society, each of them false and dangerous. The first is the confabulation associated with the so-called “rapture.” This idea, which has zero support in the New Testament, says that until Jesus returns in glory, there is nothing we can do to improve life on earth and so we really shouldn’t even try. Originally this kind of thinking existed only in antisocial cults like the Jehovah’s Witnesses, but now has come home to roost in many Christian churches, especially among so-called “born-again” evangelicals and fundamentalists. Whole series of books attest to its popularity. The Late Great Planet Earth, in several volumes, is one. The Left Behind series is another. Progress toward God A second equally pernicious idea is the belief in endless material progress created and sustained by turning raw material into consumer goods. This is the philosophy of consumerism, very prevalent in our society, driven by a vapid materialism. Now although one of these doctrines claims to be religious and the other is clearly secular and materialistic, they are both actually the same. Both ignore the proper human vocation of service. We are created to be of use to God, not to sit around and wait for the end, nor simply to consume more and more. Both these ideas promote disrespect and disregard for the creation and the created order and, therefore, of justice because, in the Bible, justice means the order created and willed by God. Both are radically self-centered, arrogant, and individualistic. They throw the world and most of humanity to the dogs. These are not attitudes rooted in Christ. Of course, it is easy to see why atheists might fall for such ideas, but it is hard to find why Christians do. If God is the creator of heaven and earth and he desires to fill all parts of the universe with himself, the entire creation becomes his domain, his dwelling. If we call where God dwells “heaven,” then the whole universe is destined to become heaven. • What practical role each of us has in this is a good question. • Can we make our hearts and our homes dwelling places of God and through them expand his presence in the world? • What power do we really have to do good? These are some questions we can keep with us through the Advent season. 2 Progress toward God Rev. Paul A. Hottinger Wondering and Questioning First Week of Advent Monday, November 29, 2004 7:00 a.m. Is 4:2-6; Mt 8:5-11 (Advent—time of renewal) “The centurion said in reply, ‘Lord, I am not worthy to have you enter under my roof; only say the word and my servant will be healed.’” We say that every Mass before communion. And there is a little girl about six years old, first grade in our school. She comes to Mass every Sunday with her parents; sits up front over here. She heard that every Sunday, and one day she turned to her mother and said, “Mom, what is that word?” Say but the word—what is that word? That’s a question we don’t ask enough. Perhaps we don’t ask questions enough because we don’t listen. This little girl, although she is very young, is very bright and she listens. If she doesn’t understand something, she wonders. Advent is about a time for wondering and questioning. The Scriptures tell us that God’s desire for us is utterly positive, and yet at the same time there is a lot of negativity in the world. The Scriptures are not naïve to that either. And the evil has to be somehow uprooted. This is part of God’s work. The prophets were very clear about God uprooting evil in the world. But that’s not the whole story. The whole idea of the gospel is we have the power to change our lives through the grace of Christ and thereby avert from ourselves the consequences of the sin of the world. We can live free from fear. We have a right to, you might say, because Jesus has died for us and, therefore, we have a right to look forward to the future with utter hope and total optimism. If we don’t look forward to the future with utter hope and optimism, one must wonder about our faith or one must wonder about our willingness to live our faith, to cover ourselves with the blood that Jesus shed on the cross. So this time of Advent is a time of renewal. It’s really a time of joy. It’s a time of preparation, not really for the feast of Christmas but, rather, for God’s coming into our world, which is an everyday experience. God is always coming into our world—and to find how we can make a place for God should be a joyful task, and it’s a possible one that we can accomplish. We are not worthy for God to come under our roof, but he wants to come anyway. At his word we can be healed. At his word we can be forgiven. At his word we can be established in holiness. Wondering and Questioning Rev. Paul A. Hottinger Evangelization and Sanctification Feast of St. Andrew November 30, 2004 7:00 a.m. Rom 10:9-18; Mt 4:18-22 (Invitation and Sacraments) “He called them, and immediately they left their boat and their father and followed him.” Today’s gospel focuses on the initial response of these apostles to the call of Christ. And St. Paul is reflecting on the need that everybody in the whole world has to do the very same thing: to respond to the call of Christ. And Paul raises the question: Well, how can anyone respond to the call of Christ if they haven’t heard the call, if they haven’t heard the invitation? The conviction is the invitation has already been given, but it hasn’t been received. And that’s the role of the apostle; that’s the role of the evangelist; that’s the role of the missionary: to carry the invitation to all people. That’s the idea. Now we can see in the history of our Church, and not only our Church but Christianity as a whole, that some groups are better than others at getting this invitation out. On the other hand, we can also see that as the Church reflected on the will of God and the life of God in the life of the community, it became very evident that getting the message out was not the only problem. The second great problem emerged: what do we do once we have the message? What do we do once people accept the invitation? Now what? Probably the very first answer to that question was, well, let’s just wait and God will come in the second coming, the parosia. That’s what we are talking about; that is more or less what we are talking about in Advent, especially the beginning of Advent—the return of Christ, the consummation of all things. But the Church learned through its own experience that that consummation isn’t coming too quickly, and therefore the saints and scholars of the Church focused on the presence of God in our daily lives and how the believing community needs to grow in the Spirit of Christ in regard to every phase of life. And this has become called the “process of sanctification.” Already even St. Paul was thinking about this. So it wasn’t exactly a long time; it didn’t take a long time for the Church to start to realize that it’s not just receive the message and wait for the end. So here it comes down to the process of sanctification. Just Evangelization and Sanctification as there are some churches and some groups that are better at evangelizing than others, there are also some groups that are more focused on this process of sanctification. And that has become the Roman Catholic focus. And that is why we emphasize so much the sacraments of the Church, because the sacraments are processes through which we can become sanctified: we bring our lives to become interfaced with the word of God and the presence of God in a palpable way, a visible way, a signified way, a symbolic way.
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