In a sermon preached in Barcelona on the first Sunday of Advent, 2 December 2 1928, Bonhoeffer said:
“Celebrating Advent means being able to wait. Waiting, however, is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them.”
Take away from this quote: So often, we have to confess our impatience in the sacrament of reconciliation. Our times are characterized by great impatience. We are to use these weeks of Advent productively as we wait in anticipation.
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