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In today’s readings we have two characters which deserve attention, Ahaz and Joseph, two characters which I have often wondered about their mindsets when they each encountered God in these particular stories.

The first thing that jumped out at me when I read this weekend’s readings was this  sentence from Isaiah: “The spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him: … a spirit of knowledge and of fear of the LORD, and his delight shall be the fear of the LORD.”

Today, as we begin Advent and the new Church year, the readings the Church gives us tries to make us more attentive to, hopeful about, and prepared for the moment of the great advent of God, the second coming of Christ. God has come to us, God will come to us again, but we must also make our pilgrimage to God.

Well, if you were here last weekend and heard me announce that one of our two Dubuque transitional deacons, Jeff Frieden, would be here assisting, and would be preaching, I’m sorry to disappoint you.  Dcn. Jeff got sick late this week, and he couldn’t make it.