+ On this last day of the calendar year, before we celebrate the
Octave of Christmas, it is fitting to read the magnificent beginning
of St. John’s gospel describing Jesus as the Word of God – the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity – now made flesh – made like one of us –
to dwell with us, so that we could
take heart, so that we could see his glory – his glory as God’s own, full of grace and truth. Jesus came as
light, with power, proclaiming truth! Those who live in truth are in the light,
and the more light they get, the more truth they comprehend.
John,
in another place, (in our first reading today) in his first
letter, written later in his life, tells us that the age of the final hour has begun [the reality of which is stronger
now than ever]; it has begun, but no one knows how long it will last; but
in this hour both the truth, and many great lies will coexist in the world:
there will be some who leave the flock and deliberately speak lies against the
Christ, the Savior, the Messiah: they are the rightly named “antichrists:”
there will be many, and their humanistic logic and earthbound wisdom will sound
appealing to the basely human and earthbound souls: but to those who live the
life of children of God – they will
reject them, and accept only the words and wisdom of the Great Truth and the Great Light: Christ the Lord.
May
we today be among the truth bearing and living, children of God, and may we
reject and denounce the antichrists who are out there trying to tempt us to
divert from God, to divert from the faith, to divert from the truth.
And
the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, we
saw his glory full of grace and truth!
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