"I think it meet ... to stir you up by putting you in
remembrance."
(2 Pet. I. 13).
_1st. Prelude._ Paul writing to Timothy: "Stir up the grace of God which
is in thee" (2 Tim. I. 6).
_2nd. Prelude._ Grace to stir myself up this Advent.
On the Sunday before Advent and nine times during the Advent Masses, the
Church puts on the lips of her children this prayer: _Stir up, O Lord_.
Let us try in this Meditation to catch her spirit which runs all through
the Advent season and see what it is that she wants God to stir up.