Year B - First Sunday of Advent

First Sunday of Advent - Year B

Isaiah 63, 16...64, 7

Psalm 79

1 Corinthians 1, 3-9

Mark 13, 33-37

To go further

Details

- Two computers. One is in standby mode, the other one is off.

- On the right, the hand of God. It only just touches the mouse and a rabbit erupts, ready (maybe we have noticed that the computer that switches on is the one whose screen is facing God?)

- The rabbit is emerging from the frame. The frame represents what's usual, expected, normal. By coming out of the frame, he's ready for the novelty of God.

- He's "on guard", ready to listen (his ears are extended) and to follow God.

Questions

- The difference between a computer which is off and a computer which is in standby mode resides in the time it takes to start. The one which is off needs time to heat up, to initialise, to execute programmes. The one which is in standby mode is "ready". He only needs a little something to wake up.

- The drawing doesn't mean that God manipulates us as we manipulate a computer with a mouse. It means that you must be in standby mode to be able to welcome God's delicacies which will touch our life everyday and to be able to recognise them. Anyone Christian who goes to church on a Sunday and then puts his faith away in a cupboard for the rest of the week, is he not like a computer which is off?

- Do I want to get ready for Christ's coming on Christmas or will I carry on with my life without questioning it and get to Christmas Eve and say "Is it Christmas already?".

- How will I try to stay in standby mode, particularly during these four weeks?