COMMENT TO THE Holy Gospel according
to Saint John 1:1-18.
The gift of faith in the One who made the Universe is something of incomparable value.
But all in all, to believe in God the Creator is something that seems to me personally obvious when one observes the admirable workmanship of the world in which we live.
Advances in science today, although what is known is lessere than a grain of sand compared to the the ocean of what exists, still offer us more arguments to believe that the order of the universe created and the laws that govern it aren't fruit of chance. The powerful mind of Albert Einstein, the one who discovered and defined the law of relativity, recognized this without doubts...
But even greater is the value of the Faith in Jesus Christ, God Who came down among us to save us. He is the One who gave the man something new and incomparably beautiful, once more after Creation and beeing , namely Himself.
I believe that if we are good people, who is not prone to self-generated phisical or psychological addictions, even if produced by environmental factors, and we strive do not intentionally hurt our neighbor, and the human society, at least not doing to others what we would not accept, if we want and ask it, we will receive the gift of the Faith, and have always Jesus and his Mother at our side.
Although subject to external influences even insurmountable, then we will be free, and It will open our mind and, as far as possible to our limits, we will see the God's plan,. The fruit that we can produce during our life will become then more and more better.
Lino Bertuzzi
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Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 1:1-18.
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.
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Commentary of the day
Saint Leo the Great (?-c.461), Pope and Doctor of the Church
1st. sermon for the Nativity of the Lord; PL 59,190 (cf SC 22 bis, p. 67f., breviary)
"The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us" This is the day our Saviour was born: what a joy for us, my beloved! This is no season for sadness, this, the birthday of Life - the Life which annihilates the fear of death, and engenders joy, promising, as it does, immortality. Nobody is an outsider to this happiness. The same cause for joy is common to all, for our Lord. . . came with redemption for all. Let the saint rejoice, for he hastens to his crown; let the sinner be filled with joy, for pardon is offered him; let the Gentile be emboldened, for he is called to life. When the designated time had come, which God in his deep and impenetrable plan had fixed upon, God's Son took the nature of man upon himself in order to reconcile man to his Creator. . . The Word who is God, the Son of God “who was in the beginning with God; through whom all things came to be, and without whom nothing came to be”, has become man to deliver man from eternal death. He humbled himself to assume our mortal condition yet without diminution to his greatness. Remaining what he was and assuming what he was not, he united our condition of a slave to his condition of equality with God the Father. . . Greatness was clothed with humility, strength with weakness, eternity with mortality: true God and true man, in the unity of a single Lord, “the one mediator between God and the human race” (1Tm 2,5). . . My beloved, let us offer thanksgiving to God the Father, through his Son, in the Holy Spirit. In the great mercy with which he loved us, he had pity on us, and “in giving life to Christ, gave life to us too, when we were dead through sin,” so that in him we might be a new creation, a new work of his hands (Ep 2:4-5; 2Co 5:17). . . O Christian, be aware of your nobility!
