This weekend we celebrate the Second Sunday of Advent. In the gospel reading below, we are reminded that valleys of our lives are filled; the mountains and hills leveled, and the winding roads are made straight when we repent and turn toward God—it is then that we see the “salvation of God.” We do this when we repent and turn toward our merciful God who embraces us with mercy and forgiveness and welcomes us home.
I hope that you have a good weekend. May you find quiet moments during this Advent season to reflect upon and experience the love and joy of our merciful God.
God bless,
Mrs. Katie Walsh
Gospel Luke 3: 1-6; L6C
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar,
when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea,
and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee,
and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region
of Ituraea and Trachonitis,
and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,
during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas,
the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the desert.
John went throughout the whole region of the Jordan,
proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,
as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah:
A voice of one crying out in the desert:
“Prepare the way of the Lord,
make straight his paths.
Every valley shall be filled
and every mountain and hill shall be made low.
The winding roads shall be made straight,
and the rough ways made smooth,
and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.”