Two days ago, swaddling clothes warming a babe laying on hay in a manger; yesterday the blood of the martyr, Stephen; today, burial cloths in an empty tomb; tomorrow, blood again, and the wailing of mothers over the slaughter of their innocent children. Is this the Joy to the World, Peace on earth to people of good will we have been singing about? It is; it is the full picture of the Nativity: God made human, entering our imperfect world in order to redeem it and make it holy. John, the disciple whom Jesus loved ((Jn 20 1a) was not present at Bethlehem but was there at the tomb and bears witness to what he saw. The man he loved and who loved him, was not just a man, but God. John saw, believed (cf. Jn 20::8) and told us about it. It is now our role to see, believe and proclaim that Jesus Christ is God.
Bro. Rene
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