And a little child will lead them...

...well not so little, but what a beautiful celebration of the Advent season. Those fresh young faces remind me of Jesus' admonition to the apostles to let the children come to him. Although, I suppose some of these young women are close to Mary's age when she said yes to the angel and some of the young men are probably close to St. John's age when he left his father's fishing boat to follow the Savior. Hope for the future is always embodied in the young. May God raise up many idealistic and zealous apostles to counter the cynicism and deadly lust of the culture of death.

This is a different version of the hymn posted here.