Readings: Sir 24,1-4.12-16 / Ps 147 / Eph 1,3-6.15-18 / Jn 1:1-18
true light
After the feast of festivals and prayers, lunches and dinners, the Christmas season in this Second Sunday continues to deepen the mystery of the incarnation of God, with the intention of showing "the plan of love" (Eph 1:5) Our lives are placed on 'what hope "(1:18) it is lawful to found the path of this new year.
Lights
With patience and wisdom, still lingers on the solemn liturgy of John's prologue, played on Christmas Day. Domina this page poetic and theological metaphor of "light", presented as a creative force that gives "life" (1.4) 'everything that exists "(1.3) and that proves unbeatable darkness," the light shines in the darkness and the darkness could not overpower "(1.5). John weaves the plot of this reflection by making an explicit reference to Genesis, using the same incipit literary: "In the beginning" (Jn 1:1, cf. Genesis 1:1). The intention seems pretty obvious: the coming in human flesh of logos eternal God is comparable to a true recreation of the world. But the comparison with the Genesis account puts us immediately on guard against the risk of being confined to a simplistic wonder. Telling the creation, the sacred author makes reference to a first "light" - that responds to the peremptory command of God: "Let there be light" (Gen 1:3) - and, later, other "lights" that fulfill the task to distinguish between regular and day and night (cf. Gen 1.14 to 16). So there are lights and lamps, or light and better light inside the reality. This corresponds to what John was anxious to explain later in the prologue, "was the world the true light that enlightens every man" (Jn 1:9). The festival of light - that is Christmas - and first ever want us to regain the necessary distinction between the different lights in the world and the light of the world, which is the "beloved Son" (Eph 1:6) of God in whom we we are all "sons" (1.5). Many natural glow accompany and guide our path in life, but it is the sense of our wanderings in this world. Paul she exclaimed without hesitation: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in Christ in heaven. He chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love "(1:3-4).
Light
The true light - that which is opposed to darkness and is capable of winning - a light source is not comparable to the other, however, essential to ordinary life of the world, like the sun, moon and stars. The true light is the deep sense of reality, a mystery of great love and unstoppable which coincides with the reality of God and his love of excess. However, this authentic light, in relation to human beings, facing the meeting - never assume - with the mystery of other freedoms, our "He was in the world and the world was made through him, yet the world did not recognize him. He came to his, and his own did not receive him "(Jn 1:10-11). Undoubtedly, the ability to see things through the eyes of the body is a wonderful gift that not everyone has. But knowing how to see things not just in real life, you must also understand the meaning, being able to see their truth, that is their meaning. To see the reality just a moment, to understand the meaning of a story - maybe our - sometimes a lifetime is not enough. And - unfortunately or fortunately - we can be happy only to the extent that we understand what "treasure" is hidden in the tangle of our days, our smiles and our mistakes, such as "hope" (Eph 1:18) the Lord 're handing to our hearts.
See
There is a truth to say: until we are able to see things from that plan of love that is Christ - the 'beloved Son' (1.6) - and we can not see Christ in the things - good and bad - the true light does not illuminate even our eyes and our journey. This is why the reality is able to sadden us, paralyze, frighten with its daily events, we can not read except under the criteria of this world. So there is a solitude as a misfortune, an illness as a problem to be avoided, a blow like an unjust punishment. Whoever receives the light of Christ - that is, who let themselves be transformed by the poor and humble his humanity - instead begins to see another reality: an opportunity to learn to forgive in a betrayal, a chance to grow in a difficult moment, a chance to surrender to God within a disconcerting unexpectedly. Not because the Christian is a kind of visionary or dreamer, but because - accepting the Son of God - it turns out in reality able to see the "power" (Jn 1:12), the constant opportunity to become too son This grace of God is not a gift granted. To be able to welcome you deny, with great clarity, all the other lights that, ordinarily, we entrust our steps. You must be willing to recognize that much of our life is still hidden from light. When in fact we are accustomed to twilight hate bright light that will pierce our darkness. Only to the extent that we deny our darkness we can deliver to the risk of the true light that enlightens every man wants and all our humanity. Christmas breaks up the shutters of our dens and asked to live, illuminating the spaces of our review. With its huge, incredible news, Christmas communicates the joy of a truth that none of us could be, but - above all - that nothing and nobody can take away: we are children of God's Chosen, created, loved, wanted always to forever. A God happened to have children and those children we are. This wonder - which is not poetry but reality - This is where you can build hope for this new year. The title of the new chapter we are going to write in the book of our lives.
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