SECOND SUNDAY AFTER THE NATIVITY
2nd January 2022


Dear Parishioner

In Greek 'Word' means logos and in Hebrew dabar. It is not just a spoken word but a creative, a doing, a making word, when uttered, is the creative expression of God's inner revelation. In our experience, words and actions bring out the person in us, without which we cannot be known. So, our words and actions reveal our inner self to people around us. Yet, even at its very best, our words can reveal only partial truths about us. So the biggest huddle for a human person is the fact that he, himself lacks the fuller knowledge of his own inner person. Therefore, the words used can create incomprehensibility and misunderstanding.

But, in God, the Word is a total revelation of the inner being of God; in fact, the Word IS God. There is a total correlation, the Gospel says the Word WAS God. Because Jesus Christ in his humanity was spoken of as God and Man. It means, when he spoke, it was God and Man speaking; when he acted, it was man and God acting in Him - e.g. healing, forgiving sins, visiting … We perceive from our own human experience that we lack incomprehensibility and understanding in our own expression, therefore Jesus too must have experienced limitation in expressing God's inner self in and through Him. "Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." So he stretched it out and it was completely restored, just as sound as the other. But the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus". But the very limitation of Jesus expression becomes a great challenge for people around him and for us even today. "They said this to test him, so that they might have some charge to bring against him. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her." When they heard it, they went away, one by one, beginning with the elders; and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him." Therefore, Jesus Christ is the Word and he is, as he described himself in John's gospel, the 'Way' the 'Truth' and the 'Life'. So, his limitations becomes our vision for life and this is what we are called to follow.

Fr Jijo George


Notices:

Please remember to pray for:

Daily for the sick clergy of our Diocese

The sick and housebound

Those who have recently died

Years Mind:
Monday: Michael McIntosh
Tuesday: Leo Von Buttlar, Canon Patrick McKenna
Wednesday: Florence Westhorp, Fr Francis Heenan
Friday: Canon John Bloomfield