Title: Meditation: Wednesday, January 2, 2002
The Catholic Calendar for Wednesday, January 2, 2002
St. Basil and St. Gregory Nazianzen
Scripture from today's Liturgy of the Word:
1 John 2:22-28
Psalm 98:1-4
John 1:19-28
A Reflection on Today's Scripture:
At the very beginning of the New Year, we are faced with a basic
challenge: are we willing to throw out human logic when it comes to
divine revealed truth? Even John the Baptist in today's Gospel had
to content himself with the ambiguity of his role -- a voice crying
out in the wilderness. And it was enough for him. He lived and died
as the precursor of divine mystery. And Jesus insists that we must be
content with seeing the Father through the person of the Son. He
demanded total submission of His followers. We must accept the word
of the Son, that the way to the Father is through the Son. What
fertile material for our agenda for the New Year: to daily probe the
Scriptures for more and more insight into Jesus -- His teaching, His
agenda, His mission. It all comes from the Father, and it all leads
to the Father. We will never understand the mystery of the Father-Son
relationship, but we can never ignore it, deny it, or contradict it
without peril to our salvation."
Msgr. Paul Whitmore ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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