Take Time to Reflect

It is helpful to our spiritual life to spend more than a glancing moment when reading the Christmas Cards we get, with their notes of good wishes both printed and handwritten. It is good for our souls also to spend time with the pictures or drawings on those cards and notes. Look quickly at the signature first, as is natural, and then look again after spending some time quietly with the card. It will become a prayer and a preparation for the Advent Liturgy. We can pray with what the card is saying in print as well as in picture. We as well, can pray with the “who ” who is behind the signature.

- Fr Larry Gillick, S.J.