Fr. Eric Nicolai preaches in Lyncroft centre on December 5, 2020: Advent, time for a new conversion. How is that going to happen? In this recollection this is not som much like ascending to a hight mountain, but imagine now that your task is to clear the ground for the helicopter to land (got that image from Bishop Robert Barron). Like the Vietnam scenes in a Francis Ford Coppola, with the wind blowing as helicopters landing and the soldiers with the drill sergeants clearing the place for their comrades. The helicopter is coming in to give them assistance and take them away to a safe place. Knowing the our Lord is near, that He is coming to seek us, stirs up the desire to prepare our heart through a new conversion. Make his paths straight (Mt 3:3): Discovering what has become twisted in our life, removing the obstacles, in order to encounter our Lord with joy. Raising our sight with a renewed supernatural outlook.

Music: Adrian Guerenger, "Fall", from his album "Singularity". Artilist.io

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