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Word of Life Word of Life December 2011 December 2011

“Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths” (Lk 3:4).

During this Advent season, we are invited to live a new Word of Life. The Evangelist Luke takes it from the book of Isaiah.

The first Christians attributed it to John the Baptist, who had preceded Jesus.

The Church, in the period before Christmas, presents us with the figure of John the Baptist, who invites us to rejoice because he is a messenger announcing the arrival of the king.

The time is coming when God will fulfill his promises, forgive sins and grant salvation to all.

“Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths” (Lk 3:4).

While this Word of Life is an expression of joy, it is also an invitation to a complete and radical change of direction in our life.

John the Baptist invites us to prepare the way of the Lord – but what is the way?

Jesus’ coming was proclaimed by John the Baptist, but before entering public life to begin his ministry Jesus spent some time in the desert. That was his way.

In the desert he found profound union with God, but he also encountered temptation, and by overcoming that, he made himself one with all of us. He came out victorious.

We see Jesus following this way too in his death and resurrection. Since Jesus followed his way to the end, he himself has become “the way” for us who are still on the road.

He is the way we must follow in order to fulfill our calling as human beings, and enter into full communion with God.

Each of us is indeed called to prepare the way of the Lord who wants to enter into our life; and we must straighten the paths of our life so that he can come in.

We have to prepare the way for him, removing all obstacles one by one, obstacles such as those arising from our limited way of seeing things, from our weak will.

We need courage to choose between our way and his way for us, between our will and his will, between a program we have thought up (which may or may not push through) and the one created by his all-powerful love.

Once we have made that decision, we have to work at conforming our own stubborn will to his.

How? Those who have become fulfilled Christians, the saints, teach us a good, practical, intelligent method: do it right now.

Moment by moment, let us try to remove the obstacles that keep us from doing his will so that it will no longer be our will living in us, but his will.

In this way we will have lived the Word of Life: “Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.”

Text by Chiara Lubich First published in December 1997 Graphic Lay-out by Anna Lollo “Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths” (Lk 3:4).