John Henry Newman wrote:  They watch for Christ who are sensitive, eager, apprehensive in mind, who are awake, alive, quick-sighted, zealous in honoring him, who look for him in all that happens, and who would not be surprised, who would not be agitated or overwhelmed, if they found that he was coming at once.....

 

This then is to watch:

  to be detached from what is present, and

  to live in what is unseen;

  to live in the thought of Christ as he came once,

  and as he will come again;

  to desire his second coming, from our affectionate and grateful remembrance

  of his first.

 

Brothers and sisters, in this Advent season let us watch and wait and act in grateful remembrance.

 

 

God's peace to you in this season of anticipation and hope

 

Sharon