Second Sunday of Advent – 07th December 2025
Dear brothers and sisters,
On this second Sunday of Advent, the Scriptures place before us an image that breathes peace right in the middle of a restless world: a small shoot growing out of a cut-down tree. Isaiah speaks about this shoot as the beginning of a new world, where justice and peace are not just ideas but the natural way of life. God chooses a small, almost hidden beginning to bring a great gift. This is how He works – not with noise or force, but like a tiny bud that dares to appear on a cold winter day.
When we listen to the prophet, we are invited to believe that God can start something new even when everything seems lost or worn out. Some of us may feel exactly that: “I have nothing left,” “nothing good can grow in me anymore.” But God sees a starting point where we see an ending. Sometimes our soul feels like an old tree, but the Lord knows where life is still hiding, and He puts His light there.
A child once told me after confession, “Father, I think God has a very big eraser.” I smiled, but I also knew the child understood something we adults often forget: God erases so He can draw again. That is what He does with the stump of Jesse; that is what He can do with us.