Advent is our chance to redeem lost time

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Fr. Michael Rennier-published on 11/29/20

It’s a season of waiting but a call to live fully with joy in the present moment.

With the arrival of Advent, we’re at the beginning of the end of the calendar year 2020. The prevailing sentiment seems to begood riddance,and the consensus is that we’re all ready for a fresh start. I have to admit, I’ve had a fine year personally, and am always suspicious of how each year, as we are living it, is always loudly proclaimed to be the worst ever. I’ve lived 39 trips around the sun now and have enjoyed them all. However, I do share in the hopeful sentiment that, whatever the next year brings, it will be better than the last.

Contemplating letting 2020 go is a bittersweet thought. My children will never be this age again. The skies will never quite…