What happened to marriage and family that it should have become a travail and a sadness?...God may be good, family and marriage and children and home may be good, grandma and grandpa may act wise, the Thanksgiving table may be groaning with God's goodness and bounty, all the folks healthy and happy, but something is missing...What is missing? Where did it go? I won't have it! I won't have it! Why this sadness here? Don't stand for it! Get up! Leave! Let the boat people sit down! Go live in a cave until you've found the thief who is robbing you. But at least protest! Stop, thief! What is missing? God? Find him!
--Walker Percy
"Excita, quaesumus Domine, potentiam tuam, et veni." Summon all your strength, O Lord, and come."
--Roman Liturgy
"'Adventus' is the exact Christian Latin equivalent of the Greek "parousia."--H.A. Reinhold
Advent is when we finally pay attention to the eschaton, to the end of all things. It is as Eliot said: “In our end is our beginning.”
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