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Commentary to the 3rd Sunday of Advent - Year C

What does a person ask of life, if not happiness? The Hebrew Bible employs something like twenty-seven synonyms to express feelings of joy. Nothing is more contrary to the Bible, then, than the religion of sorrow, of mourning, of the frowning faces that we sometimes see in our Sunday assemblies. But how can we achieve joy? Is wealth, good health, success enough? Who can be considered genuinely blessed?