Year B - Third Sunday of Advent

Third Sunday of Advent - Year B

Isaiah 61, 1 - 11

Cantics Luke 1

1 Thessalonians 5, 1- - 24

John 1, 6 - 28

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- It seems to me that the image speaks for itself. What we can note is that the rabbit on the right (the wet one) has seven little clouds which pour upon him. These are gifts of the spirit (I remind you of them : wisdom, intelligence, advice, force, science, pity, fear of God).

- It is possible to dry these gifts when one is no longer turned towards the giver. God had said "you shall love the Lord with all of your heart, with all of your soul, with all your spirit and all of your force, and you will love your neighbour as you love yourself." What about the love of your neighbour when we water him with concepts and ideas which extinguish life in him?

- The rabbit on the left is "well-squared", his lines are hard, highlighted, his ears and feet are angular. His eyes are closed because he is not capable of looking at that which is good in the other one. 

- His heart is protected by his barrel, behind his certitudes. He dare not look at his heart, and dare not show it either.

Questions

- Don't make me say what I don't want to say. I do not say that morale, catechism, canonical rights and dogma are there to make us sweat (and still less to extinguish the spirit !). They are there at the service of the growth of human beings. They are therefore indispensable. On the other hand, be careful in the way in which we use them. If it is to break someone, is this a service for their growth.

And I, do I consider myself as an aid? As an obstacle ? In what way ?

Never lose sight of the fact that we always need the right balance.