In Advent is one of the Christmas market Just to the festive Christmas lights throughout the city as well and gingerbread are available in supermarkets already since the end of August. Although the commercial Christmas has a firm grip, I think the message of Christmas to not yet silenced. We are touched by the call of Peace of the Angels and the story speaks of the child in the manger, the longings of our child's soul still. Even if we are eighty years old, the child in us still there. It's small and vulnerable, longs for security and recognition as then. The longing for salvation and redemption from a world for which we are labor and cost, is unbroken. The hope that everything is in a different way, human and peaceful, our world has been announced. The joy is this third Sunday of Advent his name. Latin "Gaudete" - "Rejoice" to German.
The light goes out this Sunday by John the Baptist, this pithy and quaint figure of the New Testament. He persuaded his contemporaries to the conscience, and made them the courage to hope that another life is possible. He was afraid not before criticizing the dissolute life of the rulers. The first cost him the freedom, life. From out of prison, he has his followers Jesus ask whether he was the liberator, wait for the all. Ridiculous question for someone you actually know. But trust in God may already be shaken when one is imprisoned.
Jesus could answer yes or no. If he does not, but points out what you can hear and see with him, and: the sick are healed, the marginalized are taken up again, desperate to be given new courage and the poor hear the message that makes them free. (See Matthew 11.2-6) Those were many such people that wanted the pious and the corresponding nothing to. They were convinced, who was sick, had the disease get missed as God's punishment law who was suffering from a disease that was not only society but also of God marginalized and on the arms was not a divine blessing. Now weiß aber Johannes von der Taufe im Jordan her, dass dieser Jesus Gottes geliebter Sohn ist. Damit hat er auch die Antwort auf seine Frage: Jesus ist der, auf den alle warten. Er setzt die neuen göttlichen Maßstäbe. Deshalb können alle, die an den Rand der Gesellschaft gedrängt werden, sich selbstbewusst und aufrecht zeigen. Und alle, die im Namen Gottes daher kommen, werden darauf achten und sich dafür einsetzen, dass die Benachteiligten und Ausgegrenzten zu ihrem Recht kommen und würdig behandelt werden.
Darüber ist die Freude groß. Arglos wie Kinder dürfen sich alle freuen, weil alle dazu gehören. Nicht weil sie sich das verdient hätten, sondern einfach so.
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