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Dear Mount Community:
As students at the Mount are wrapping up the semester with projects, papers, and final exams, we are moving into the final week of the Advent season as a faith community. Since Christmas falls on a Sunday this year, the Fourth Week of Advent gives us a full seven days for final preparations for Christmas. It will be easy to fill the time and space with the effort to get it all done. Perhaps the real invitation is to empty ourselves to be filled with the presence of Jesus.
Empty yourself continually in honor of the Incarnate Word who emptied himself with so much love for you. (Phil. 2:7)
This year our school theme invites us to focus on serving the dear neighbor by choosing love. We get a glimpse of the extent to which love will go through the image of Jesus in the manger. As we strive to serve the dear neighbor, the manger provides a way to choose love.
Be like a manger: Be empty, Be sturdy, Be still, Be soft inside, Be ready.
In a world that can sometimes feel cold, dark, and unwelcoming like that Christmas night so long ago, together we can make a difference by our choices to love. Let us be a manger for one another and to all those we encounter.
Thank you for the many ways that you choose love in sharing your time, talent, and treasure at the Mount. Thank you to each one of you as you seek to actively choose love and act in daily service to the dear neighbor. Thank you for your loving support that strengthens our faculty and staff as they faithfully tend the seeds entrusted to our care knowing that the hope of the harvest is in the seed.
I wish you quiet moments to refresh and renew your spirit, time to enjoy family and friends, and God’s abundant blessings this Christmas season and all through the new year. Be assured of my prayer for you and your intentions.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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