Be Vigilant: Daily Meditations For Advent (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
Come, let nothing keep you from coming to our aid. Both of today's readings have the common theme of being annunciations of the birth of a child. In the first reading the birth of Samson is being announced. In the Gospel it is the birth of John the Baptist that Zechariah receives notice of while he is performing the priestly service in the Temple. Another common theme is that both potential parents are told that the child to be born to them is not to drink alcohol once they are born. For some reason it is what jumped out at me when I read both this morning. We know that when Jesus compared what people said about him and John that it was Jesus who was labeled the drunkard, so he obviously enjoyed a drink now and then. So why couldn't John or Samson drink? Why did God command this of them from their conception? There are those who think the prohibition reflects belief that grapes were the "forbidden fruit" that Adam and Eve had been forbidden to eat in the Garden of Eden.
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