December 11 - Thursday of the 2nd Week of Advent
(Is.41:13-20; Ps.145:1,8-13; Mt.11:11-15) “I will make you a threshing sledge, sharp, new, and double-edged.” A “worm” and a “maggot” are we. We are “the afflicted and the needy [who] seek water in vain, [our] tongues… parched with thirst.” But holding our right hand, the Lord speaks to us: “Fear not, I will help you.” “I will open up rivers on the bare heights… I will turn the desert into a marshland, and the dry ground into springs of water.” And has not John the Baptizer come, into the desert, into the wilderness, and there poured the water of God’s compassion upon us for the forgiveness…
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