December 15 - Thursday of the 3rd Week of Advent
(Is.54:1-10; Ps.30:2,4-6,11-13; Lk.7:24-30) “For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with great tenderness I will take you back.” We are “the barren one who did not bear,” the “wife married in youth and then cast off” by our God. Once “forsaken and grieved in spirit,” blushing for the “shame of [our] youth,” now the Lord takes us home and promises us His love. “My love shall never leave you nor my covenant of peace be shaken,” the Lord in His mercy assures us. Though we be as those in the days of Noah, deserving of His destructive wrath, yet He takes pity on us, not only sparing our lives…
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