In the name of the Father and of the Son of the Holy Spirit, amen.

My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.

I adore you with profound reverence.

I ask your pardon for my sins.

And the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful. My immaculate mother, St. Joseph, my Father and Lord, my guardian angel, intercede for me.

As we focus on Jesus' true presence in the manger of the suborium of the tabernacle,

we try to muster up the humility to ask him for another conversion, which is the purpose of these

wonderful days of grace called Advent. We continue to petition our Lord for that third kind of Advent of our Lord making his presence in my soul, in my heart.

And the theme of today's Fourth Sunday of Advent is associating Christ with joy, peace and joy.

We will contemplate that, especially in a few days when we celebrate the high point of our liturgical cycle,

the absolute meaning of human life, the celebration of our transcendent God breaking into our own world in the fullness of time.

God making his appearance as an infant.

What does that mean for me? Let's look at what the Holy Spirit says in these

scriptural readings. Centuries before Jesus Christ, prophet Micah, says the following, predicting the Messiah, describing the Messiah,

he shall stand firm and shepherd his flock by the strength of the Lord. In the majestic name of the Lord is God,

and they shall remain for now His greatness.

His greatness shall reach to the ends of the earth.

He shall be peace.

The description of our Lord is not that he is peaceful, he is peace.

St. Paul will reiterate that. Isaiah will call him the Prince of Peace. Peace will be one of the

prominent virtues that keep surfacing in the Gospel, especially as our Lord neared his passion for the first time in his last evening with the apostles,

in that moment of intimate meditation and prayer and sorrow because of his departure.

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