The celebration of Gaudete Sunday sets the tone for the whole of Advent. The liturgy of this special day invites us explicitly to rejoice. “Brethren: Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice,” writes St Paul in the Letter to the Philippians (4:4), words that also form the Introitus of the Mass. The reason for this divine joy is clear: the Lord is near; His coming is at hand. This theme becomes the leitmotiv that leads us toward Christmastide, when the joy of our suppliant cry to heaven—that the clouds may rain down the Just One—is finally answered, and the divine dew descends in the Saviour of mankind. This is joy par excellence.
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