December 24, 2023: Fourth Sunday of Advent

Throughout this Advent Season, we ponder God's promises to His people as we await His coming, both the celebration of His first coming and then His second coming, as God reveals a great mystery through prophets and then fully in the Son, to bring us to faith.

It is a marvel to consider the first reading, in which God says to David that He will make him into a house, with a descendant Who will reign forever.  We see that promises fulfilled in Mary, when the angel Gabriel announced that she would bear the Son of the Most High, ruling on the throne of His father David, over a Kingdom that would last forever.

By consenting to God's plan, she became a house for God.  And so we can be dwellings for God, as He fulfills His promises through us to be present in the world.  He chose us through His grace so all may know how much God loves us.