Are you Joyful?
Advent
is a time of waiting. We find ourselves waiting for mail deliveries,
for cooking and baking to come off the stove or out of the oven, for
Christmas trees and guests to arrive. In his writings, St. Francis
consistently counseled both patience and joy. He said, wisely: “We can
never tell how patient or humble a person is when everything is going
well with him. But when those who should cooperate with him do the exact
opposite, then we can tell. A man has as much patience and humility as
he has then, and no more. Let the brothers beware lest they show
themselves outwardly gloomy and sad hypocrites; but let them show
themselves joyful in the Lord, cheerful and suitably gracious.”
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