The calendar this year really messed up Advent. With Christmas
Day falling on a Monday, the fourth week of Advent gets compressed into 24
hours. There is less time to prepare, and most parties are compressed into one week
(which is exhausting this introvert). Lent never pulls tricks like this, even
when I could really use the shortened time there.
But then Gaudete Sunday arrived, and it lined up perfectly
with the beginning of the O Antiphons. And it made so much sense. The light and
joy of the third week is the perfect attitude for the antiphons. They are a
joyful worship, and they build up the anticipation to Christmas. It may be a
compressed Advent. It may be rushed and exhausting. But it can be joyful too.
Gaudete in Domino semper: iterum dico, gaudete.
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