29/04/2025

In the first letter attributed to St. John can be found a summary of the spiritual growth of one who had literally lived the Gospels and who was one of the founding fathers of Christianity but probably knew himself to be as one of the Jews still following the Law of Moses.

Today we read and try to open our ears to the far from simple analogy that God is light. He does not worship the sun as the source of light but points us to the intangible substance that is essential for our lives on earth to continue. He develops the depth of the analogy by telling all believers that we are all in a fellowship, a communion of saints when we accept the truth that can only be seen in the Light.

The Light of IAMFATHERHOLYSPIRIT has been generated by the final sacrifice of the Old Testament which is the first and only sacrifice of the New. The blood of his friend which he had seen poured out on Calvary was for the whole world an everlasting promise that when we acknowledge our own personal sinfulness the price of our ransom has already been paid.

St John was found by Jesus when he was mending his nets by the shore in Galilee . There were thousands of well-educated, cultured and sincere holy men of God in the Palestine of the first century but Jesus chose simple, rough and tough working men to be the first recipients of his "Good News".

My hope is that the grace that happened for them can also be acquired by me and that I can truly find the rest that is the light yoke and easy burden of the sinless life promised to all of us by Jesus.