You don’t have to believe in the second coming to know that judgment of the present lies in the future and that it is tomorrow that will judge today, so in Advent we celebrate the gifts that help us to act today out of a belief in tomorrow—desire for justice, hope for humanity, joy in life—and we seek to share those gifts with others.In thanking you for the privilege of being with you, I wish you a very happy Christmas and a good new year, I wish my son a happy birthday and I ask, if you will allow me, with this traditional Christian prayer for Advent, to pray for us all to be blessed today as we contemplate our tomorrow.Almighty God,give us grace to cast away the works of darknessand to put upon us the armour of light,now in the time of this mortal lifein which thy Son, Jesus Christ,came to us in great humility;that, in the last day, when he shall come againin his glorious majesty to judge both the living...