Full of grace and truth

TUESDAY 31 DECEMBER (Jn 1,1-18)

The Prologue of the Gospel according to John is the seal of the Holy Spirit to the truth of Christ Jesus: the eternal truth of generation from the father, truth of universal mediation in creation, truth of incarnation, truth of redemption and salvation, truth of light and eternal life and truth of revelation. Every truth announced both by the Old and also by the New Testaments finds its full light in the Prologue. If the Prologue is such a perfect, such a full and such a complete truth as nothing to be able to be added to it, why is Jesus Christ today denied what he is by nature and divine person, by human nature, by ministry and mission that the Father has given directly to him, in the Holy Spirit? Why have so many heresies arisen around the Person and are these heresies still today infesting the field of the Church today? Why has this powerful light been eclipsed in our times, arriving to make of Christ Jesus a man like all other men, putting him on their very lever, while He is the eternal, divine and human Different?

He is also the Different one for redemption, salvation, justification, mediation, revelation, eternal life, light and resurrection. Truth is truth and it stays for itself: not because we want a thing to be truth is truth and not even one thing from truth becomes falsehood because we decide it. Darkness is darkness and light is light. To read the Holy Scripture one needs to be basically honest. It is honesty to say what it says, but also not to say what it does not say. Furthermore, to intellectual honesty historical honest must be added. A man, in the Holy Spirit, at the beginning not only did he write who Jesus of Nazarth is; later he also wrote a Gospel, demonstrating, proofs in hand, that Jesus is truly the Word, the Only Begotten Son of the Father, that came into the world to offer us the gift of eternal life. Here is the Apostle’s conclusion to his Gospel: “Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of (his) disciples that are not written in this book. But these are written that you may (come to) believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through this belief you may have life in his name” (Jn 20: 30-31). The Prologue is the summary of the Holy Spirit to all revelation.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be. What came to be through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race; the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. A man named John was sent from God. He came for testimony, to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to testify to the light. The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, but the world did not know him. He came to what was his own, but his own people did not accept him.

But to those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name, who were born not by natural generation nor by human choice nor by a man’s decision but of God. And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth. John testified to him and cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘The one who is coming after me ranks ahead of me because he existed before me.'” From his fullness we have all received, grace in place of grace, because while the law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God. The only Son, God, who is at the Father’s side, has revealed him.

The Christian must make this revelation of the Holy Spirit his truth. Becoming his truth, he will become his grace. Becoming his grace, he will become his life. Becoming his life, he might become truth, grace and life of every man. Since only Jesus is grace, truth and life, if we deprive ourselves of Him, we also deprive Him of the world. We remain in our sins, we condemn the world to remain there. This is the great Christian sin today: we are depriving ourselves of Christ, the one and only key to truth, grace and life, we close the doors of redemption and salvation for us and we close them for the whole world. I don’t think there is a sin worse than this. It is a sin that excludes us from the kingdom of God, if we do not get converted soon and defend Christ in his truth.

Mother of God, Angels, Saints arrange that every Christian confesses the truth of Christ Jesus.