Dec
9
Prepare the way—Second Sunday in Advent (Cycle C)
Baruch 5:1–9; Philippians 1:4–6, 8–11; Luke 3:1–6
I assisted at a funeral the other day, and the priest brought up an experience from his childhood of a time when his mother had divided a sandwich between him and his brother. And once the halves were distributed, the bickering started: “Why does he get a bigger piece?”
I’m sure none of you parents have experienced this phenomenon. And I’m sure none of us with siblings have ever made this protest.
The priest used the story to make a point. All of us are innately attuned to a sense of fairness, that no one be given more than another because of some arbitrary preference of a deciding authority. Or to put it simply, we are all endowed with a sense or need for justice. And we recognize from an early age when something is not just.
I assisted at a funeral the other day, and the priest brought up an experience from his childhood of a time when his mother had divided a sandwich between him and his brother. And once the halves were distributed, the bickering started: “Why does he get a bigger piece?”
I’m sure none of you parents have experienced this phenomenon. And I’m sure none of us with siblings have ever made this protest.
The priest used the story to make a point. All of us are innately attuned to a sense of fairness, that no one be given more than another because of some arbitrary preference of a deciding authority. Or to put it simply, we are all endowed with a sense or need for justice. And we recognize from an early age when something is not just.
