Scripture teaches there is only one God. Yet this one God exists eternally as three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. One divine essence, three distinct persons who are fully and equally God in eternal relation with one another. 

Like Mary, we’ve been told something. Entrusted with something. And the question before us today, the same question that Mary faces is: What will we do with this Jesus? We actually do know the rest of the story.

Advent is about how good Jesus is to include us in his family. Jesus’ family lineage, as laid out in the beginning of the gospel of Matthew, included the notable and the scandalous.