This week’s Advent topic is on faith; faith in the one true God and His Holy Will.

We are now entering the second week of preparation of the first coming of our Lord, Jesus Christ. In homes and churches across the world, we are now lighting the second candle of the Advent wreath, sometimes called the Bethlehem Candle of our Mother Mary and Saint Joseph, her most chaste spouse.

It was prophesied in Micah 5:2 that the Messiah was to be born in Bethlehem. And this week we remember the journey Mary and Joseph made from Nazareth to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem. The road from Nazareth to Bethlehem is almost 100 miles long depending on the route you take and would have taken 4 to 5 days to travel on foot.

Imagine the immense faith it would have taken both of them to trust that they were going to make it there safely; especially since Mary was further along in her pregnancy with the King of kings.

Mary and Joseph are viewed as perfect examples of faith. In Mary’s acceptance of the Lord’s Will when the angel Gabriel came to her to make known God’s Will, her fiat included not only that moment, but for the rest of her life. She was able to bear our Lord, raise Him, and learn from Him in true faith and humility.

Joseph being the good husband and faithful man he was, also followed God’s Will as it was revealed to him. He needed to have intense faith to be able to fulfill God’s Will to the protector of the Holy Family.

May we learn to serve God’s Will as they both did.

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