WE ARE TELLING YOU

PRAYER MOMENT 

Saturday 27 December 2014, St John

WE ARE TELLING YOU

             

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “What we have seen and heard we are telling you so that you may be in union with us, as we are in union with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.” (1 John 1;1-4)

Reflection. As with Stephen  yesterday we woinder why we suddenly get John so close to Christmas. Well, we can see immediately John has a different way of describing the origins of Jesus. He tells us Jesus is the Word of God born before the ages, Light from true Light. We are more comfortable with Luke and the Bethlehem story than with John’s moving Jesus back, as it were, into the timeless ages. John’s emphasis is not so much the birth of a baby as the arrival of God in our midst; ‘He made his home among us.’ John’s gospel and letters centre on the revelation of God himself in our midst. Awe surrounds every moment. Where else in the gospel do we get a woman dropping her waer pot, forgetting her disgrace and running back to the village to ‘tell everyone’ about the man she has just met?

Prayer. Lord Jesus, you are God among us. We rejoice at your birth and ask you to help us welcome the ‘sharing in your divinity’ you came to give us. Amen.  

David Harold-Barry SJ