Advent with Richard Rohr: First Sunday
Richard Rohr, OFM
December 1, 2019
Keep awake therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.
—Matthew 24:42
“Come, Lord Jesus,” the Advent mantra, means that all of Christian history has to live out of a kind of deliberate emptiness, a kind of chosen non-fulfillment. Perfect fullness is always to come, and we do not need to demand it now. This keeps the field of life wide open and especially open to grace and to a future created by God rather than ourselves.
