A homily for the First Sunday of Advent, November 28, 2021
Jer 33:14-16, 1 Thes 3:12—4:2, Lk 21:25-28, 34-36
In 1965, John McPhee’s book profiling Bill Bradley, “A Sense of Where You Are,” hit the shelves. In it, the then-student athlete at Princeton University explained how he was able to accurately fire a basketball through the hoop by maintaining, literally, a sense of where he was on the court.
Bradley, who distinguished himself as an Olympian, a New York Knick, a U.S. senator from New Jersey and a true statesman — among innumerable accomplishments — has kept that sense of where he is not only physically but emotionally, psychologically and spiritually throughout his life and career.
Advent challenges us to do the same.
