THE 4TH SUNDAY ADVENT LIGHT AND THE CANDLE OF LOVE............

On this fourth and final Sunday of our opening season of the new Liturgical Year, Advent - during which we have been watching and waiting for the Messiah's Coming in Hope, Peace, and Joy, with the start of the Christmas Season 2012-2013 just two days away, our prayers, liturgies, and worship, zero in on the Advent Light of God's Love.  The gift of Love between the Divine and Humankind that moves and animates our lives and the Life of the World and is represented today by our lighting of the remaining purple candle around the boughs of evergreen that forms our Advent Wreaths, - the Candle of Love.  With the four candles of Advent lit around our liturgical circular denoting the anticipation and preparation of Christ's Coming as God Made Man, - the Messiah of God's People, its illumination awaits only the lighting of the white or perhaps gold colored  Christ Candle in  the center, shining forth the brightness and Light of Jesus, Who is born into human flesh to be Emmanuel, "God With Us".  In the hustle and bustle of the shopping and socializing today and tomorrow bring, take time, make time, to dwell in the Advent Light of Love, that leads to the Light and Love of the Holy Birth of the Messiah, Who Comes as our Savior, Lord, and Redeemer............Fr.  Troy