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Pure truth!

“The Lord Is with You

Israel’s worst moments were when they conceived of themselves as alone, without God. As in the desert, when they sought strange gods to rescue them; or when they faced the hostility of Babylon and relied on their strategies rather than on God. This sad tendency goes back to Adam and Eve, who turned from God to follow the lie that they would be gods themselves, and became so blind to themselves that they hid when God came to be with them. While our hearts long to be with God, our sin makes us forget him and resist his advances toward us. Who will save us from this impossible situation? Jesus, Emmanuel, God-with-us. Mary said “Yes” to God’s desire to be with us. No one participated in God’s life and lived with God in such a humanly intimate way as did Mary. She is the dawn that promises what life can now be. Not a life of doubt and alienation, like an abandoned child, but a life with God; a union so deeply human that it begins to participate in the divine. Mary gives us the possibility to receive the greeting, “The Lord be with you.” Let us never take these words for granted, for they are now radically and unimaginably possible through Mary’s Yes.”
…Fr. Richard Veras (2012 Magnificat Advent Companion)

O KEY OF DAVID
December 20

Symbols: Key

Come, and bring forth the captive from his prison.

O Key of David, and Scepter of the House of Israel, who opens and no man shuts, who shuts and no man opens; Come and bring forth the captive from his prison, he who sits in darkness and in the shadow of death.

O Clavis David, et sceptrum domus Israël, qui aperis, et nemo claudit, claudis, et nemo aperuit: veni, et educ vinctum de domo carceris, sedentem in tenebris, et umbra mortis.

The key is the emblem of authority and power. Christ is the Key of the House of David who opens to us the full meaning of the scriptural prophecies, and reopens for all mankind the gate of Heaven.

Recommended Readings: Isaias 22:22-25