{"id":105856,"date":"2012-12-08T02:35:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T01:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vincentians.com\/blog\/first-sunday-of-advent-jose-antonio-pagola-2\/"},"modified":"2016-07-12T18:25:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T16:25:30","slug":"second-sunday-of-advent-jose-antonio-pagola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vincentians.com\/en\/second-sunday-of-advent-jose-antonio-pagola\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Sunday of Advent (Jos\u00e9 Antonio Pagola)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><strong><strong>To make new ways<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The early Christians saw, in what the Baptist was doing, the prophet who prepared decisively the way for Jesus.\u00a0 Hence, over the centuries, the Baptist has become a call that keeps urging us to prepare ways that will allow us to welcome Jesus among us.<\/p>\n<p>Luke has summarized his message with this cry from the prophet Isaiah: \u00a0\u201cPrepare the way of the Lord.\u201d\u00a0 How do we listen to this cry in the Church of today?\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>How do we find ways so that we men and women of our time meet him?<\/strong>\u00a0 How do we welcome him in our communities?<\/p>\n<p>The first thing is to realize that we need a much more lively and personal contact with him.\u00a0<strong>One cannot just be nourished with religious doctrine<\/strong>. \u00a0We cannot follow a Jesus that has been turned into a sublime abstraction.\u00a0 We need to be vitally in tune with him, to let ourselves be attracted by his lifestyle, to be infected with his passion for God and the human being.<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of the \u201cspiritual desert\u201d of modern society, we have to understand and\u00a0<strong>configure the Christian community as a place where the gospel of Jesus is welcomed.<\/strong>\u00a0 We need to live the experience of us believers, little believers, somewhat believers, and even non-believers, gathering together around the gospel account of Jesus.\u00a0 We must give him the opportunity to penetrate with his humanizing force our problems, crisis, fears and hopes.<\/p>\n<p>We should not forget.\u00a0 In the gospels, we do not learn academic doctrine about Jesus that is destined to age unavoidably over the centuries.\u00a0 We learn a lifestyle that can be lived at all times and in all cultures: Jesus\u2019 lifestyle.\u00a0 <strong>Doctrine does not touch the heart, it neither converts nor enamors.\u00a0\u00a0 Jesus does.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The direct and immediate experience with the gospel account brings about our birth to a new faith, not by way of \u201cindoctrination\u201d or \u201ctheoretical learning,\u201d but rather through vital contact with Jesus.\u00a0 <strong>He teaches us to live faith, not out of obligation, rather out attraction.<\/strong>\u00a0 He makes us live the Christian life, not as a duty but as a contagion.\u00a0 In contact with the gospel, we recover our true identity as followers of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Going through the gospels repeatedly and carefully, we experience that the invisible and silent presence of the Risen One acquires human traits and regains a real voice.\u00a0 Suddenly everything changes: \u00a0we can live accompanied by someone who puts sense, truth and hope in our lives.\u00a0 <strong>The secret of the \u201cnew evangelization\u201d consists in putting ourselves in direct and immediate contact with Jesus<\/strong>.\u00a0 Without him, there is no engendering a new faith.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jos\u00e9 Antonio Pagola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>December 9, 2012<br \/>\n2 Advent (C)<br \/>\nLukes 3:1-6<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To make new ways The early Christians saw, in what the Baptist was doing, the prophet who prepared decisively the way for Jesus.\u00a0 Hence, over the centuries, the Baptist has become a call that keeps &#8230; 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