As we enter this holy season of Philip’s Fast, we too
need to “schedule time off” – not from our jobs, but from
part of each day – in order to properly prepare for the
Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord. In today’s reading, we
hear St. John the Forerunner and Baptist telling his fol
lowers, “(P)repare a way for the Lord” (Luke 1:3b).