+ The two beautiful Christmas Season readings “shine
the light,” if you will, on the formula for life, the formula for peace that
Jesus – Messiah and Lord – came to proclaim! “The light is love” proclaims St. John
in the first reading today; and love is all inclusive, including all of our
brothers and sisters of the human family, including even the most lost and
errant among them.
It is only when we refuse to
give up on them, and we “bathe them in the light of God’s mercy and love” with
our prayers and best wishes that there can be any chance of peace on earth!
Beloved Simeon in the Gospel
passage was granted his heart’s desire: to take in his arms the awesome
promised Messiah and King – who is a
light of revelation to all the nations and the glory of Israel! His promise
is to us too: to reveal a right path for the tiny nations of our own lives, and
to help us give glory to his Father and ours, in heaven!
And then there will be more
peace on earth this day than less, because we have taken Jesus into our arms
and into our hearts, and are part of the solution and formulation of his peace,
rather than the problem and cause of discord behind blocking it from entry!
Glory
to God in high heaven, and on earth peace to men, women and children who really
try to get it right!
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