1st Sunday of Advent – Year B Homily: Integration

integrationWaiting for the Lord:  from rigidity and chaos to integration
1st Sunday of Advent – Year B
 In some of our institutions in Asia and Africa we have watchmen or security personnel. I am talking about the day-watchmen particularly those who mind the gates, not the night-watchmen, who are actually paid to sleep in our properties!  (The only night-watchman I have ever come across who we knew was not sleeping at night actually went mad after doing his job so conscientiously for three months.) In any case, I think, there are three types of watchmen – sorry for not being gender-sensitive here, since I have also come across security women these days!  There are the rigid ones; there are the chaotic ones; and then the integrated ones.  The rigid ones prefer to stand or sit […]

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