https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/distinctly-catholic/advent-remember-second-coming
I wrote about this topic yesterday at http://xianleft.blogspot.com/2018/12/first-sunday-of-advent-2018.html I dealt with how Advent is an evironmental Holiday. The human heart responds to the season, at least for those with mental illness and alcoholism/addiction. While many get the holiday blues, most do not. Those who do are often the ones with other issues. This is why there are more sobriety events this time of year. It is a preventative to suicide. Many of these are spiritual and not religious. That they are not religious is not on them, but on the Church of their upbringing who offered a punishing God who required that you confess your sins or burn in Hell. Most people in recovery do discuss their faults with a sponsor, although some include their priest or minister in the loop.
I take a slightly different approach to what is essential to the season. It is not so much using the season for dealing with personal sin but for doing works of justice and charity. This might stars with taking the bus even though it is cold to experience what it is like to be homeless this part of the year. We do agree that the season is about Jesus coming right now. The question is, where do we find him. To elaborate on yesterday's post, do we find him in Church or in solidarity with the poor this season.
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