Homily
3rd Day of Christmas IIB
Feast of St. John, Apostle
27 December 2017
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center at the University of Kansas
The Church today celebrates Christmas especially with St. John, the beloved disciple. It is good that another apostle appears as a special friend and help during Christmas alongside our Blessed Mother. St. John wrote the Gospel chosen for Christmas Mass during the day - codifying the language of Word made Flesh as perhaps the Church's most apt description of the mystery of the Incarnation.
Today's Gospel selection interestingly zeroes in on St. John's faith in the empty tomb, reminding us even in the heart of the Christmas season of the necessary connections between faith in the Incarnation and faith in the Resurrection. The first mystery leads ultimately nowhere new without the second. John wrote about the first. He was a witness to the second.
John's close association with Mary makes him a beautiful friend as the Church tries to engage the Christmas mystery through the body, heart, eyes and mind of our pre-eminent member, our dear mother. As the Lord seeks a place to be born in the Church this Christmas, it is so fruitful to remember John taking the Mother of God under his roof right in the midst of the paschal mystery. It is no accident that this special relationship with the spouse of the Holy Spirit gave rise to the deepest and most spiritual contemplation of the Word Made Flesh.
May John help us deepen our contemplation of Christmas.
3rd Day of Christmas IIB
Feast of St. John, Apostle
27 December 2017
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center at the University of Kansas
The Church today celebrates Christmas especially with St. John, the beloved disciple. It is good that another apostle appears as a special friend and help during Christmas alongside our Blessed Mother. St. John wrote the Gospel chosen for Christmas Mass during the day - codifying the language of Word made Flesh as perhaps the Church's most apt description of the mystery of the Incarnation.
Today's Gospel selection interestingly zeroes in on St. John's faith in the empty tomb, reminding us even in the heart of the Christmas season of the necessary connections between faith in the Incarnation and faith in the Resurrection. The first mystery leads ultimately nowhere new without the second. John wrote about the first. He was a witness to the second.
John's close association with Mary makes him a beautiful friend as the Church tries to engage the Christmas mystery through the body, heart, eyes and mind of our pre-eminent member, our dear mother. As the Lord seeks a place to be born in the Church this Christmas, it is so fruitful to remember John taking the Mother of God under his roof right in the midst of the paschal mystery. It is no accident that this special relationship with the spouse of the Holy Spirit gave rise to the deepest and most spiritual contemplation of the Word Made Flesh.
May John help us deepen our contemplation of Christmas.
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