We
began a new Liturgical Year and Season, that is (Advent), which is a time of
celebrating the virtues of Hope, Love, Joy and Peace, it’s a time of
watchfulness, it’s a time of mutual and self-reconciliation, it’s a time for
inner preparation for the Nativity our Lord Jesus Christ, it’s a time as well
to welcome in our hearts the one who comes to reveal us the Father as we heard
from the Holy Gospel.
“No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who
the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him”,
(cf. Lk 10:22).
Beloved
brothers, there is a very practical method of Cognitive Psychology or
Behaviorism which says that if you want to know what the parents of a child do
without asking her, observe what she does when she is playing with other
children. Because children have that tendency of imitating what their parents
do and they aspire to be like their parents. For example: a child of a farmer,
she may play with others in a way of cultivating something; a child of a
pastor, she may play with others in a way of preaching to other or collecting “Sadaka” from other children, as well; a
child of a drunker, she may play with other in imitating the drunkenness of one
of her parents, and so all.
Likewise, Jesus in today’s Gospel through his Thanksgivings’ Prayer to the
Father for the Revelation, presents the vertical relationship between Him and
the Father, he shows that He, himself is the Revelation, Mediator and Revealer of
the Father and that, He is in full and total communion with the Father. And all
that we know about the Father, we know it through his Revelation. However, this
thanksgiving Prayer, “I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth…” is
an expression of joy, that Jesus manifests to the Father by the good
performance of Missionary work of the Disciples, and that is why in (Lk 10:24)
Jesus tells them: “blessed are the eyes that see what you see, because many
prophets and kings desired to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear
what you hear, but did not hear it”.
Today we are also reminded by this Gospel how blessed we’re for
everything that we have by God’s grace in our life; we are blessed for having
an opportunity to encounter the Lord in our daily life especially in the Mass
and Adoration, there may be having people who do not have that chance of
meeting the Lord.
On
the other hand, in the First Reading, Prophet Isaiah foretells the coming of
the Messiah, the Christ, who will be anointed by the wisdom and understanding
of the Spirit of the Lord. The one who will judge with justice, and not by
hearsay. Additionally, dear friends, the prophet announces the unity and peace
that Christ will bring on earth, and that the creation will in total fraternal
communion among themselves and with God, because the one who is coming will
come with flames full of Unity, Love and Peace.
In
accordance with today’s Readings, we are reminded as well, dear friends, to
have full and total communion with God through Jesus Christ, and we are called
to reconciliation, to the true fraternal love which is the foundation of our
community life towards Christ; and we pray that, God may continue to help us to
recognize his Revelation in our midst and that through Jesus, we may also be
light and revelation to others.
Antonio Lohoca
II Year
Theology
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