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Advent is the season in which we prepare for reliving the beginning, Christ‟s coming in the past in Bethlehem; the season in which we prepare for the end, his coming in the future on the clouds of heaven to judge the
living and the dead; and the season in which we embrace his coming in the present, in so many ways, but especially in the Eucharist. 

The same Christ whom the shepherds and Magi adored in Bethlehem comes to us in the Eucharist at every Mass, in an even more humble disguise that he assumed in the manger. Our response to Jesus in the
Eucharist now is the true indication of whether we are awake or asleep, whether we‟re imitating Mary and Joseph, the Shepherds and the Magi, or whether we‟re behaving more like the inn-keepers, scholars of the law and Herod.  This new liturgical year is a gift from God to help us enter into the reality of Christ‟s presence ever more intensely.