We have entered the beautiful season of Advent. The Church gives us this holy time to focus on being ready to meet the Lord. This particular emphasis of the Church arises from the insistence of the Lord Jesus himself. As we heard in the Gospel passage on Sunday (Matthew 24: 37-44), Jesus makes clear that he will come again, though we know not when. Indeed, we proclaim in the Creed our expectation of the Lord’s return, when he will come as judge of the living and the dead.
