“The world… does not
understand the love that waits, any more than the love that weeps. It is so
impressed with the feeling that this and that needs doing here and now that it
cannot wait for God’s signal; cannot realize that He has His own way and His
own time for doing things; and, in consequence, a great deal of activity is
wasted in overlapping, and misdirected effort, and fussiness.” —English Catholic
priest, theologian, radio broadcaster, and author of detective stories Ronald
Knox (1888-1957), October 1936 sermon on St. Mary Magdalene, quoted in Rev.
James V. Schall, S.J., “On Sitting Down and Waiting,” in
Idylls and Rambles: Lighter Christian Essays (1994)
Waiting: the appropriate
activity for this Advent season of preparation…
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