Christmas Octave, Thursday – 31st December 2020 — Gospel: Jn 1,1-18
Circular Path of God’s Word
The evangelist John pushes his account of Jesus, the Word, back to the beginning of time itself. His prologue claims that creation itself originated through His life-giving agency: apart from the Word, “not one thing came into being”. The emphasis is that the one who began the work of creation also begins the work of redemption and the Word made flesh knows perfectly well what He is doing. The path of the Word highlights his three-fold mission. First, the Word is the meditator of creation, of the cosmos and everything in it. Life becomes a reality within the Word. Secondly, it is through the revelatory activity of the Word that all humans are enlightened. In fact it is through the incarnate Word, Jesus Christ that “the grace and the truth” has become a reality. Finally, it is the divine Word who enables believing humans to be born from God and to become truly children of God. Indeed this Word, which begins from God the Father and ends in His bosom.
