First Sunday of Advent – 30th November 2025
Dear brothers and sisters,
Advent begins like a deep breath from God over our hearts. Not with noise, not with fireworks, but with a quiet invitation that sounds like a bell in a sleeping village: “Come, let us walk in the light of the Lord!” This is how Isaiah opens his prophecy today. It is not only a call, but a promise: where people climb toward God, there miracles happen – changes that the logic of this world cannot explain.
I imagine the crowd in the prophet’s vision like a river of people climbing a mountain filled with light. No one pushes them, no one forces them; they are drawn forward, as if their hearts have finally recognised the right direction. Maybe this is what true peace looks like: not the absence of war, but the presence of God – so strong that even iron feels ashamed of violence and lets itself be changed into a tool for life.
I once knew a young man who carried bitterness for years like a heavy armour. Anyone who came close was pushed away with sharp words. One day, during confession, the priest told him gently: “Give God just one wound, not all of them. Let Him see it, not you.” The next day, the young man asked his mother for forgiveness. Nothing spectacular… just a weapon changed into a tool. Perhaps this is the first work of Advent: letting God shape the hard metal of our hearts.