"Light has come into the world" - Wednesday 2nd of Easter
Liturgic day: Wednesday 2nd of Easter
Gospel text (Jn 3,16-21): Jesus said to Nicodemus, "Yes, God so loved the world that He gave his only Son that whoever believes in him may not be lost, but may have eternal life. God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world; instead, through him the world is to be saved. Whoever believes in him will not be condemned. He who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the Name of the only Son of God. This is how the Judgment is made: Light has come into the world and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. For whoever does wrong hates the light and doesn't come to the light for fear that his deeds will be shown as evil. But whoever lives according to the truth comes into the light so that it can be clearly seen that his works have been done in God".
Comment: Fr. Damien LIN Yuanheng (Singapur, Singapore)
"Light has come into the world"
Today with the myriad of opinions in modern living, it may seem that truth does not exist - truth about God, truth about gender issue, truth about marriage, moral truths, and, ultimately, truth about myself.
Today's gospel passage identifies Christ to be "the way, and the truth, and the life" (Jn 14:6). Separate from Christ, there is only desolation, falsehood and death. There is one and only one road to heaven and it is called Jesus Christ.
Christ is not just another opinion. Christ is Truth itself. To deny truth is like someone who insists in closing his eyes from the sun-light. Whether he likes it or not, the sun will always be there; but the poor fellow has freely chosen to close his eyes from the sun of truth. Likewise, many spend themselves in their career with sheer will-power, they claim to fulfill their full potential, forgetting that they could only attain the truth about themselves by walking with Christ.
On the other hand, according to Benedict XVI, "each person finds his good by adherence to God's plan for him, in order to realize it fully: in this plan, he finds his truth, and through adherence to this truth he becomes free (cf. Jn 8:32)" (Encyclical Letter "Caritas in Veritate"). The truth of each one is a calling to be a son or daughter of God in the heavenly home: "For this is the will of God, your sanctification" (1Thess 4:3). God wants free daughters and sons, not slaves.
Truly, the perfect “I” is a joint project between God and I. When we strive for holiness, we begin to reflect the truth of God in our lives. The Pope said it beautifully: "Each saint is like a ray of light that shines forth from the Word of God" (Apostolic Exhortation "Verbum Domini").
Source: www.evangeli.net
