TUESDAY, December 27 Saint John

1 John 1:1-9. We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life.

The apostle John wrote these words not long after the crucifixion. We can hear the note of panic, frustration, and disbelief in his letter. He was there, he saw it all unfold, the coming of the Messiah and the redemption of the world. How can anyone question? How can anyone doubt?

Yet, already in John’s time, the Gnostics were challenging the divinity of Christ, and other divisions and dissent threatened to dissolve the young church.

For many of us, this Tuesday is our first or second day back at work after Christmas. The commute, the keyboard, the tasks put aside before the holiday now look stale and burdensome. Perhaps for us, too, the sense of wonder we found in the Nativity is already starting to erode. But we can listen to John. He saw, he heard, he touched, he wrote. He wrote to bring joy to the hearts of his readers. May our joy, indeed, be ­complete. Christ is born. Alleluia!

PRAY for the Diocese of Yukon (British Columbia and the Yukon, Canada)                                                                                                                                        

Ps 92 or 92:1-4, 11-14; Exodus 33:18-23; John 21:19b-24

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