Sir 24, 1-2.8-12
Eph 1, 6.15-18
John 1, 1-18
In the beginning was the Word ... He came to His own and His own people
did not accept Him ...
The words of today's Gospel are a
repetition of what we heard on the Christmas Day. It's a great hymn of St. John,
where the author, the youngest apostle of Christ gives us in full the profundity
of the theological truth about Jesus the Son of God - the Word made flesh,
Light, Life and Truth. These words are so beautiful and extremely profound, but
it seems that they are difficult to understand and sometimes, "we let them pass by near or over our heads."
However, I think one needs to grow up in a certain intelligence, to understand
their depth and surrender to their inner strength and power, so that they
become full of meaning and splendor for the listener. You have to let you be absorbed
by its wisdom and taste them slowly and without haste, like poetry, which
reveals its profundity only to experts. Unfortunately, we often cannot afford
that, we are much too busy and too rational.
What John the Apostle wants to tell us, is
primarily a bottomless truth about the mystery of the Incarnation, which
becomes more understandable when you combine it with the mystery of the
Redemption. God became man, lived in the human world, from His fullness He gave
us "grace upon grace". This alone can clarify and justify the coming
of God into the world in human flesh. All that we are and what we will be, all
we have and we can have, absolutely everything, we have from Him and through
Him ...
John in his prologue also highlights
another truth. Sad and frightening truth, the truth that this God, God-Man, Who
came to His creature, by this creature was rejected, unrecognized, neglected,
and even ... negated. It is, as if a product,
furniture, table, car produced by a human ... told the creator: "I do
not know you, you do not exist, I created you, you're just a fabrication
of my sick imagination ..."
Often, that's what happens when kids
wanting a freedom or "emancipation" with some incredibly perverse mentality
reproach and with absurd bitterness turn to their parents, saying: "I am
in the world where I did not ask to be! Why did you give me a birth? I do not
know you and do not I want to know you! And then, what parents can say? How can
they respond to this kind of "wisdom"?
Is it not that I'm resembling this capricious
and spoiled child who wants to "liberate himself from an oppressive
parental care"?
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