We should have been so fortunate to have seen and touched our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as testified in today’s first reading. But the Gospel should resonate with every living Christian today! For it is a great and personal testimony that we share with the apostle John who only saw the linen cloths and yet fully believed.
While we have not yet seen Christ Jesus our Lord in the full embodiment of His resurrected body, we have most certainly felt His overwhelming and glorious presence. For He is truly present to all His faithful. Most concretely so, in Holy Eucharist. Therefore we must go forth to bear witness to Him, that is to all who’s eyes have not seen and ears have not heard; that our living God is alive and actively seeking to embrace everyone in His love.
Merry 2nd day of Christmas!
Saint John, Apostle, pray for us…
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First reading
1 John 1:1-4 ·
The Word, who is life – this is our subject
Something which has existed since the beginning,
that we have heard,
and we have seen with our own eyes;
that we have watched
and touched with our hands:
the Word, who is life –
this is our subject.
That life was made visible:
we saw it and we are giving our testimony,
telling you of the eternal life
which was with the Father and has been made visible to us.
What we have seen and heard
we are telling you
so that you too may be in union with us,
as we are in union
with the Father
and with his Son Jesus Christ.
We are writing this to you to make our own joy complete.
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Gospel
John 20:2-8
The other disciple saw, and he believed
On the first day of the week Mary of Magdala came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved. ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb’ she said ‘and we don’t know where they have put him.’
So Peter set out with the other disciple to go to the tomb. They ran together, but the other disciple, running faster than Peter, reached the tomb first; he bent down and saw the linen cloths lying on the ground, but did not go in. Simon Peter who was following now came up, went right into the tomb, saw the linen cloths on the ground, and also the cloth that had been over his head; this was not with the linen cloths but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple who had reached the tomb first also went in; he saw and he believed.
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