Please read the Scripture passage before the homily.
How many of you knew, when you first met your future spouse that that would be the one whom you would marry? One of my sisters married the best man at the wedding of another of my sisters. has happened at times.
Apparently, it also happened with the first four disciples. Jesus called them from their work, and they followed him. What was it about Jesus that drew them to him? What was it about them that drew Jesus to them? What drew them also draws us. How else can we explain why we come together to celebrate the presence of Christ in the proclamation of the Sacred Scriptures and in the celebration of the Eucharist?
We cannot explain such intimate attractions as the result of brain waves or mystic auras. There must be something or somebody beyond ourselves, pushing us on beyond ourselves. Jesus is God, present to us. He is coming, but he is also here. This the mystery of Advent, that, although Christ has come, he is still coming and never not coming. It is also the mystery of ourselves, that we are coming but always on our way. There is a final coming, when the Lord comes, at last, and come at last to the coming of Christ and Christ is all in all.