An Eagle

“An Eagle.” This Sunday is the final week of our Advent series looking at portraits of Jesus in the four Gospels. Tradition associates the Gospel of John with an eagle. Why is that? Because the prologue—the first verses of the book—lift us out of space and time, soaring like an eagle back to “the beginning,” and then to creation, and then to the little town of Bethlehem when the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.