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By Timothy Brunk, November 30, 2025<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the First Sunday of Advent in the Roman Catholic Church, the Missal requires the presider to use Preface I of Advent.  Before the invitation to join \u201call the hosts and Powers of heaven\u201d in the singing of the Sanctus, that preface contains this clause:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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that, when [Christ]  comes again in glory and majesty<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and all is at last made manifest,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

we who watch for that day<\/p>\n\n\n\n

may inherit the great promise<\/p>\n\n\n\n

in which now we dare to hope<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The word \u201cdare\u201d caught my attention.  This word appears daily in the Roman Catholic Mass, when \u201cwe dare to say\u201d the Lord\u2019s Prayer.  It appears in the Missal in only two other places as a part of a required prayer: the Collects for the Nineteenth and Twenty-Seventh Sundays in Ordinary Time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We \u201cdare\u201d to say the Lord\u2019s Prayer, calling on God in familial terms, the God who is our \u201cLord, holy Father, almighty and eternal God\u201d in the words of so many Prefaces (including Preface I of Advent).  The Lord\u2019s Prayer, of course, petitions that God\u2019s \u201ckingdom come, [God\u2019s] will be done on earth as it is in heaven.\u201d  The eschatological emphasis is clear, but the \u201cdaring\u201d concerns the intimacy with which the assembly addresses the eternal God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Preface I of Advent, the \u201cdaring\u201d concerns precisely the eschatological hope in which Christians live.  In view of a world and of our individual nations characterized by poverty, bigotry, murder, torture, and war and in view of the sinfulness that ever lurks in our individual hearts, Advent is indeed a time to recall that Christian hope dares a great deal.  Let us \u201cwatch for that day\u201d when God\u2019s kingdom comes, a \u201ckingdom of truth and life, a kingdom of holiness and grace, a kingdom of justice, love and peace.\u201d1<\/sup>  Let us watch for that day by daring to be pursuers of justice, makers of peace, reconcilers of divisions and hatred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1<\/sup>Preface of the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe.  Assemblies hear this preface on the Sunday immediately preceding the First Sunday of Advent..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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