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It portrays the Christmas message as a call to nonviolence, justice, and mercy, even through suffering, and highlights the vocation to practice universal, active love. 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 \nAnd thus we come to mark Advent,season of preparation,season for receiving the good news of peace,season to welcome theGod of peace into our hearts and lives.This is no mere shoppingseason,as our culture often views it.Receiving the God of peace goeshand-in-hand with doing the work that makes for peace.Whichmeans,to put the matter redundantly,doing the work that makes forthe abolition of war.  \nTraditionally,the church has long regarded Advent as a seasonof prayer,renewal,and hope,a time to ready ourselves for the comingof the Christ.But often tossed from our sanctuaries are the brutalfacts of the case,facts some think impolitic to dwellon.Namely,thatAdvent heralds a child at risk,born to homeless refugees,in abjectpoverty,on the outskirts of a brutal empire—a child who grew upto become,in Mahatma Gandhi's eyes,the greatest practitioner ofnonviolence in the history of the world.  \nThere follows from this the true substance of Christmas(heldat arm's length both by culture and acculturated church).Christmasis neither a celebration of dogmas and abstractions nor,as in moresecular circles,of family and conviviality.Christmas lifts us higher.Itcelebrates a life of perfect nonviolence,indeed,its very incarnation,the embodiment of Peace.It proclaims the coming of the God whoannounces,\"blessed are the peacemakers,\"the God who commands,\"put down the sword,\"the God who states plainly,\"love yourenemies.”  \n1  \nChristmas heralds God's very purpose of peace,an epiphanyall but forgotten in our blindness.It welcomes the Prince of Peace,the Spirit of peace,the hope of peace,the trutch of peace,and the wayof peace.Christmas exults in the prospects of peace.  \nChristmas summons us,not to vain merriment,but to theway,the truth,and the life of nonviolence.Mahatma Gandhi andDr.Martin Luther King Jr.used this clumsy word \"nonviolence\"tosum up the Christian life in a world of total violence.It's the last,bestway to understand our Christian vocation.It is a calling to practiceuniversal,active love in pursuit of the truth of justice and peace forallhuman beings,even to the point of accepting suffering withoutretaliating with further violence or even being killed without everkilling others,as we give our lives for a new world,a world withoutwar,poverty,injustice,or nuclear weapons.Christmas offers a giftof its own—a new invitation to study,teach,and practice activenonviolence in every aspect of our lives,to renounce every trace ofviolence or complicity with the culture of war,with the abiding hopethat one day peace will reign on earth,as each one of us becomes likeJesus,the embodiment of peace.  \nWe h","cbCaiv39cKuEdFHz","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiv39cKuEdFHz","pdf",3339226,68,"English","# The Advent of Peace: An Introduction\n## Advent as preparation for receiving peace\n## Nonviolence as the Christian vocation\n## Advent as a contrary voice against the culture of war","[{\"question\":\"What does the text say Advent is for?\",\"answer\":\"Advent is a season of preparation and receiving the good news of peace, welcoming the God of peace into one’s hearts and lives.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the text connect Christmas to peacemaking and nonviolence?\",\"answer\":\"Christmas celebrates the embodiment of peace and summons believers to the way, truth, and life of nonviolence, urging active love in pursuit of justice and peace.\"},{\"question\":\"What contrast does the text draw between the culture of war and Advent?\",\"answer\":\"The culture of war is presented as the daily norm with widespread violence, while Advent is described as a contrary voice calling for repentance, a halt to destructive momentum, and a pilgrimage of peace.\"}]","The Advent of the God of Peace - Reflections for Advent 2007 | PDF",171]