Your liberation is near at hand

[1st Sunday of Advent, Year C, Nov 29, 2015/ Jer 33:14-16 / Ps 25:4-5, 8-9, 10+14 / 1 Thess 3:12–4:2 / Luke 21:25-28, 34-36]

All things can be born patiently when liberation is close at hand. Many of the older generation here in Manila remember the moment of their liberation during the Japanese Occupation of World War II. They kept their hope alive in a difficult moment because they knew that the American armed forces were getting closer and liberation would come soon. When they were eventually liberated it was an experience of great joy and freedom.