These reflections are a result of more than 40 years of ministry as a Roman Catholic priest. Most of these years I spent in the Diocese of Charlotte which covers Western North Carolina. Now I am retired, and live in Medellín, Colombia where I continue to serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Medellín.

Monday, Week I, Advent

They shall beat their swords into plowshares
 and their spears into pruning hooks;
 One nation shall not raise the sword against another,
 nor shall they train for war again.
O house of Jacob, come,
 let us walk in the light of the LORD! (Is 2:1-5)
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/112921.cfm
Advent not only asks God to come, it asks us to come as well and to train for war no more. Today’s picture is Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares, a sculpture by Evgeniy Vuchetich in the United Nations Art Collection.