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For Advent 3

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They said, “You have a blue guitar. You do not play things as they are.” The man replied, “Things as they are are changed upon the blue guitar.” Wallace Stevens’ “Man with the Blue Guitar” insists that reality bends in unexpected ways for unexpected reasons. There are two worlds to be played – one on the blue guitar, and one not. Today’s readings “play” the world in a blue guitar sort of a way. “Things as they are… are changed.”   At her installation as Bishop of the Diocese of Cuba two Sundays ago, Bishop Griselda Delgado told of her arrival in the town of Itabo, as rector of the Parish of St. Mary the Virgin.   The roof of the church was collapsing, and the walls seemed about to fall outward. There was no seating – most of the church was littered with rubble. There had been no priest there for many years.   There were, however, some women who kept the linens washed and the candles lit. And there was a man, a gardener, who tended a small flower garden. Those women and that man wa