25th December 2022 Christmas Day “Christmas is Always Outside”
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Here we have the first Sunday of Advent – the beginning of the New Christian Year, which leads us to Christmas.
How are we to respond – for many people it is a complex time? But even long before Jesus was born, Isaiah encouraged us to draw away from all the flurry and take time to listen, pray and long for the vision of the Kingdom of God, for each of us.
Imitating Christ and not just following Christ. Being a radical, peacemaker, filled with ideas and passion
and imitating Christ with love and grace. That’s our Francis!
Here we learn that Jesus is the way to the Father.
If we are going somewhere, we need an address and directions to travel -we use our Sat-Nav or Google.
However the disciples had to see that the God they had a vision of was very different, to the Jesus they knew.
But Jesus was their Sat-Nav and the person to lead them in God’s ways.
Jesus tells a story where workers all get paid the same amount but for differing hours of work.
The Kingdom of God is not about “Fairness, or where we all stand, it is about what we receive”.
The Kingdom of God is the divine commonwealth for the common good of all people so everyone has enough.
Jesus came to upturn things, no one is suffering because some have more and others have less.
How often are we told we don’t listen! The disciples didn’t question anything when Jesus said ‘Come follow me”. They dropped everything and listened.
Then they knew they belonged in this group, they were needed to support Jesus.
Their task was changing other people’s lives through the power of Jesus who shared the the love of God.
Do we obediently answer God’s calls? It could drastically change our future?
Journeying in our world today requires humility.
The falseness of those who do not ‘practice what they preach’ is not tolerated.
Jesus requires us to love mercy and to walk humbly with God as His followers.