{"id":27567,"date":"2025-12-05T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/?p=27567"},"modified":"2025-12-05T17:05:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T01:05:33","slug":"whom-do-we-await-a-quien-esperamos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/2025\/12\/05\/whom-do-we-await-a-quien-esperamos\/","title":{"rendered":"Whom Do We Await? \/ \u00bfA Qui\u00e9n Esperamos?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Por Fr. Ed Liptak, SDB <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Mary visited her kinswoman Elizabeth, the full realization of all that took place back at Nazareth dawned. She truly was to be Mother of God. She burst into song, and in one of its verses she marveled, \u201cThe Mighty One has done great things for me, and Holy is His Name.\u201d In another burst of realization she exclaimed, \u201cHe has helped Israel His servant, remembering his Mercy, according to his promise to our fathers, to Abraham and to his descendants forever.\u201d <\/em>Thus began her waiting for the birth of her divine Child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, also, does Mary strike the Advent theme of yearning for the coming of our Savior. Isaiah by Messianic prophecy, gave us a longer look at the One whom Israel awaited. He would be of David\u2019s line (Jesse was David\u2019s father). The Spirit of God would be upon Him, strong and wise in judgment and great in knowledge and respect for God, able to penetrate the curtain hiding who men truly are, but treating the afflicted with justice. And since He is just, He strikes the ruthless and slays the wicked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, Mary\u2019s promised One, the Messiah, the Savior, would beget peace signified poetically by Isaiah: the wolf guest in the lamb-fold; the leopard with the goat kid; the young lion gazing with the calf, and only a child shepherding them. The bear and the cow are able to live together as friends, and the lion and the ox are feeding on hay together. \u2026 So also with humans:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 A baby will play over a cobra\u2019s den and a grown child over a rattler\u2019s lair. The Messiah, when he come,s will reverse the very ways of nature! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 The \u2018Awaited\u2019 <\/em>of Mary, magnificent in holiness for He is God, lowly in his humanity for he came as a helpless infant, it is He too whom we await, God and Man in full wisdom and justice. We may gasp at Isaiah\u2019s description, but when Simeon, inspired by the Spirit, cradled the Infant Jesus in his arms, he saw \u2018salvation\u2019<\/em> of all nations, \u2018light\u2019<\/em> for the gentiles, and the \u2018glory\u2019 <\/em>of Abraham. It is He for whom we wait. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

St Matthew\u2019s Gospel  advises us, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand<\/em>!” There is no hiding from the Master of this Kingdom. He came, and He comes, in greatness and littleness, seeking our embrace and desiring our love, not our reluctant following. He wants to gather us, but there is such a thing with Him, too, as \u201cunquenchable fire.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00bfA Qui\u00e9n Esperamos? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Cuando Mar\u00eda visit\u00f3 a su pariente Isabel, la plena comprensi\u00f3n de todo lo que hab\u00eda pasado en Nazaret, occuri\u00f3. De verdad iba a ser la Madre de Dios. Estall\u00f3 en canci\u00f3n y en uno de sus versos se maravill\u00f3: “El Poderoso ha hecho grandes cosas por m\u00ed, y Santo es su <\/em>Nombre.” En otro arrebato de realizaci\u00f3n, exclam\u00f3: “Ha ayudado a Israel, su siervo, record\u00e1ndonos su Misericordia,seg\u00fan su promesa a nuestros padres, a Abraham y a sus descendientes para siempre.” <\/em>As\u00ed comenz\u00f3 su espera por el nacimiento de su Hijo divino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As\u00ed tambi\u00e9n, Mar\u00eda aborda el tema del adviento del anhelo por la venida de nuestro Salvador. Isa\u00edas, seg\u00fan la profec\u00eda mesi\u00e1nica, nos dio una mirada m\u00e1s larga al \u00danico a quien Israel esperaba. Ser\u00eda de la l\u00ednea de David (Jesse era el padre de David). El Esp\u00edritu de Dios estar\u00e1 sobre \u00c9l, fuerte y sabio en juicio y grande en conocimiento y respeto por Dios, capaz de atravesar el tel\u00f3n que oculta qui\u00e9nes son realmente los hombres, pero tratando a los afligidos con justicia. Y como es justo, golpea a los despiadados y mata a los malvados.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As\u00ed, el Elegido prometido por Mar\u00eda, el Mes\u00edas, el Salvador, engendrar\u00eda la paz po\u00e9ticamente se\u00f1alizada por Isa\u00edas: el lobo invitado en el redil; el leopardo con el cabrito; el joven le\u00f3n mirando con el ternero, y solo un ni\u00f1o los gu\u00eda. El oso y la vaca capaces de vivir juntos como amigos, y el le\u00f3n y el buey aliment\u00e1ndose juntos de heno. \u2026 Lo mismo ocurre con los humanos:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Un beb\u00e9 jugar\u00e1 sobre la guarida de una cobra y un ni\u00f1o adulto sobre la guarida de un cascabel. \u00a1El Mes\u00edas, cuando venga, invertir\u00e1 los caminos de la naturaleza!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 El ‘Esperado<\/em><\/span>‘ <\/em>de Mar\u00eda, magn\u00edfico en santidad porque \u00c9l es Dios, humilde en su humanidad porque lleg\u00f3 como un infante indefenso, es tambi\u00e9n \u00c9l a quien esperamos, Dios y el Hombre en plena sabidur\u00eda y justicia. Podemos sorprendernos ante la descripci\u00f3n de Isa\u00edas, pero cuando Sime\u00f3n, inspirado por el Esp\u00edritu, acun\u00f3 al Ni\u00f1o Jes\u00fas en sus brazos, vio la ‘salvaci\u00f3n’<\/em> de todas las naciones, la ‘luz’<\/em> para los gentiles y la ‘gloria’ <\/em>de Abraham. Es por \u00c9l a quien esperamos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

El Evangelio de San Mateo nos aconseja: “\u00a1Arrepi\u00e9ntaos, porque el reino de los cielos est\u00e1 cerca<\/em>!” No hay forma de esconderse del Amo de este Reino. Vino y viene, en grandeza y peque\u00f1ez, buscando nuestro abrazo y deseando nuestro amor, no nuestro seguidor renuente. Quiere reunirnos, pero tambi\u00e9n hay algo con \u00c9l llamado “fuego insaciable”.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Fr. Ed Liptak, SDB When Mary visited her kinswoman Elizabeth, the full realization of all that took place back at Nazareth dawned. She truly was to be Mother of God. She burst into song, and in one of its verses she marveled, \u201cThe Mighty One has done great things for me, and Holy is His Name.\u201d In another burst of realization she exclaimed, \u201cHe … Continuar leyendo Whom Do We Await? \/ \u00bfA Qui\u00e9n Esperamos?\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":10336596,"featured_media":12531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[777629889,2343517,20310044],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fr-ed-liptak","category-gospel-reflection","category-province-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/salesianbulletin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/intouch-scripture-graphic-feature.jpg?fit=1600%2C510&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p59ePG-7aD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10336596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27567"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27618,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27567\/revisions\/27618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}