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This is a time when we constantly hear about the “Woke” culture, referring to the perception that people are waking up to a need to change all kinds of thinking and things of the past. So we see angry into changing the names of institutions, tearing down statues of people honored in the past, demanding that people accept lifestyles and behavior that previously were rejected.

I have no problem with examining the past and wanting to move away from unhealthy history into a more morally healthy way of life. I find it somewhat amusing that the “Woke” generation appears ignorant of what the Catholic Church and the Judea-Chrisitan culture has been proclaiming for centuries: the world is full of moral darkness and evil because the human race struggles with the spiritual wound called “Original Sin.” There is no need for a Christian to “woke up” because we already know that the world is not what we know it should be.

The “Woke” generation, or at last many of them, does not seem to have knowledge or appreciation for the answer to unhealthy human history: Jesus Christ, who takes away the sin of the world. Those screaming about the need to “woke up” are just as sinful as the rest of human beings, and their actions and cries to change the world ring hollow if they are accepting or living in a sinful manner themselves. The most obvious example in our nation and in most of the rest of the world is the great sin of abortion, which is protected by law in so many countries and supported by members of the “Woke” generation.

Many people say they are weary of all the talk and protest about abortion, but we need to realize that the abortion issue is crucial because it involves the very right to be alive in the first place. If you do not have a right to be alive that cannot be taken away by anyone, then I don’t see how you have any other right if you are permitted to survive the womb.

Advent is the time to “wake up” spiritually, as the Scripture readings of this weekend stress: Therefore, stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come. [Matthew 24:42]  Is there something that I or you need to wake up to, something which would keep us from heaven? If so, now is the time to do something about it.nd for those entrusted to rule it.