Prepare Ye the Way!

The Advent call to watch and repent.

“Don’t worry about it,” Tyler told the radar operator. He thought it was a group of U.S. B-17 bombers com­ing in from the mainland.

But he was wrong. That blip turned out to be the first wave of a surprise Japanese attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor—an attack that plunged America into World War II.

After examining all the informa­tion, it was determined that the radar equipment worked effectively, but the information on the screen was not interpreted properly. It’s quite possible that if the attack had been launched a month or two later, after people were properly trained, the war would have looked a lot different.

Watch and Prepare. During this season of Advent, three of the four Sunday Mass readings focus on our need to be alert and awake. They tell us to keep an eye on our spiri­tual radar screens, and they teach us how to interpret the information accurately.

On the first Sunday of…

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