Come And See!

1 John 1:1-4
John 20:2-8

Christmas season is a season of our Lord’s birth and the hope that His birth brings to us. At Christmas, we see God making use of what human beings considered as insignificant to be relevant, barreness turn to fruitfulness, Insignificant Bethlehem, in a violent world dominated by Rome is were the saviour is born of a virgin, and the lowly shepherds were to be the ones to announce the good news to the world as instructed by the angel.
St. John in his prologue affirms that those who accept Jesus as Son of God, God makes them children of light.

How anxious are we to encounter Jesus? Today we celebrate one of the most unique the apostles St. John was one of the apostles to embrace Jesus and the last to die for his sake. He was chosen by Christ together with Peter and James to see the Transfiguration and the Agony in the garden of Gethsemane. He is the one who rests his head in devotion to the sacred heart of Jesus at the last supper. With St. John, public revelation of God ceased. The two readings today are taken from his writings.

The Gospel today says that Peter and John were in a hurry to find Jesus because the tomb was empty whereas Christ appears to Mary Magdalene who had been possessed by several demons to be the one to tell his brothers about his resurrection. How many times, in our two-thousand-year histories, have we tried to celebrate the nativity in a context of such fear and insecurity? It is only going to God that can remove our anxieties and our unrest and fill us with joy that is complete. It is only God that can remove our shame and cover us with salvation. It is only God that can make what is impossible to be possible. Only God can raise the lowly and put down the proud of hearts.

At Christmas, We carry Jesus the newborn king in our hearts, always! But we must stay vigilant, getting the distractions out of the way so we can finally hurry to the manager to await the coming of our newborn King! 

St. John the beloved- pray for us. Amen.

Fr Joseph Osho