From the propers this week, Father Harris explores our deepest hopes for dealing with suffering. We often believe that simply forgetting our pain is the best we can hope for, an idea echoed in the ancient Greek myth of the River Lethe. Yet this path of forgetting leaves our sorrows without meaning. Advent calls us to a different and more difficult path: not to forget our heartbreak, but to remember it and bring it before the God who promises to transform it. This Christmas, we are invited to find a hope greater than oblivion, a joy that comes not from escaping our memories but from seeing them redeemed.