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4 January

January 4th, 2010

“The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light”
John 1 : 1 – 18

Jesus’ birth is heralded by a star that leads the way for the Magi from the East.

Christmas celebrates the Saviour’s entry into the world as the break of a new day – a light shining in the darkness. We are challenged to receive and recognise Jesus as our light. He was not accepted by His own people. Like Jesus we are to be lights amid darkness, and hope amid despair. Jesus tells us – “You are the light of the world. Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good works and glorify your heavenly Father.”

Prayer


Lord make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is darkness, let me bring light, where there us sadness joy. Amen.

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Just a Thought

Hope

John XXIII, referred to as the ‘caretaker Pope’, realising the widening gap between the Church and the world of his day, wrote: “An old world is disappearing. Another one is being formed, and with this I am trying to conceal some good seed or other that will have its springtime, even if it is somewhat delayed, and comes after I’m dead.”

Thomas Merton writes: “One must not give in to defeatism and despair: just as one must hope for life in a mortal illness which has been declared incurable.”

Even when dark clouds surround us, even when everything appears to be falling apart, we must continue to believe for a better future. Whatever the problem, there is a way forward.

So, my hope is in God alone because I believe in him; this is my faith. It is in him I put my faith and that faith, my belief in God’s love for me and all his creation, is the bedrock in which like an anchor, I put my hope. Together with that hope and faith is my love and fidelity in responding to that God in whom I live and move and have my being. In him I place my hope.

“Hold fast to the hope that lies before us. This we have as an anchor of the soul” (Heb 6:15-19).

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