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1 Corinthians calls us to wait expectantly for the revelation of the Christ. The revelation of the Christ comes in time, through evolution, but it’s not automatic. We’re also called to think. Advent calls us to re-pent; the actual meaning of which, in Greek, is re-think. Our conscious expansion of awareness of the divine presence – how God lives and acts among us in our time – helps incarnate the Mystery we call Christ.
Ilia Delio. “Advent in the New Universe Story 2014,”
Advent is not about a sentimental waiting for the Baby Jesus…. Advent is about a time to focus our expectations and anticipation on “the Adult Christ, the Cosmic Christ,” who challenges us to empty ourselves, to lose ourselves, to surrender.
- Preparing for Christmas, Daily Meditations for Advent by Richard Rohr
For Teilhard, the future of the earth lies not in science but in the spiritual power of world religions and the power of love. He envisioned an eventual convergence of religions so that the emergence of Christ would ultimately not be limited to a single religion but would be the convergence of psychic, spiritual energy, the unification of the whole. - Ilia Delio.
Never was so much owed by so many to so few.
- Winston Churchill.
"The challenge of the saints of the twenty-first century is to begin again to comprehend the sacred in the ten thousand things in our world; to reverence what we have come to view as ordinary and devoid of spirit." — Edward Hays in Secular Sanctity