Beginning this week, with the grace of God, is the new season time of the Church which is called ‘Advent’. Thus we begin the new liturgical year, we began to prepare ourselves, once again, for the first coming of Jesus in His Christmas, while we wait in happy expectation, the glorious manifestation of the Lord in the end times.

The Lord who came and will come up to meet us, today, through the Word, gives us an invitation to redouble our attention, so that Let us light the flame, the candle, the light of surveillance in our lives.

You know, my brothers, “watch” is an expression that must be engraved in our hearts, because we often make mistakes and we are bowled over by the life and circumstances, we know not watch or we do not watch in ways our conduct as befits. We live a reckless live, as if we were living eternity here on earth; then we say, “No, later I will repent of what I do.”

Do not be foolish, but be people of faith, who are really convinced that your Lord will come. And we must be prepared, waiting for His coming.

I think it is not always easy to understand the ways in which “Sister Death” will visit us. And as comes, so often, to the unprepared. How many people died in unexpected ways in this life, because it has no way to deny that which happens in the tragedies, what is happening in accidents; no one wanted that to happen, those who were involved in an accident, lives are snuffed out very fast at that time. Who is prepared. And what we need is to do this: be prepared for surveillance by being vigilant.

Vigilance keeps our heart careful not to succumb to the temptations, and to discern what it really is correct and what is not of God. Vigilance lights our attention, and God’s care for us so that we do not take the wrong paths from virtue or walk off the path from carelessness.

We begin this time of grace asking God, so insistent, that will truly give us a watchful heart, a heart that is watching, waiting, ready and prepared to receive the Lord who comes to meet us.

God bless you!