![]() The Magi, who were wise enough to seek the truth, took advantage of the star to move farther on their journey. How differently they moved under its light. That star shone on all, on the Magi, on King Herod, on Joseph and Mary. ![]() The Magi were following the “star of wonder, star of night,” of which we sang at Christmas. “We saw his star at its rising,” the wise ones from the east told the government leader of their day, after Jesus’ birth. It is those who are clean of heart, the Gospel tells us, who will see God (Matthew 5). And as our faith grows, so does our inner vision: Our hearts grow, too. Paul tells us, we will see clearly what we now can get only a glimmer of (1 Cor 13:12). When we see with faith, we see things as they really are - though we grasp them only brokenly. Divine light shows also what is possible. ![]() The light of Christ shines on whatever is in our hearts so we may be seen as we really are - not for our shame and detriment, though we may feel that way at times, but for our healing and salvation. “Flood the path with light,” my mother used to pray when it was hard to figure things out she had read this prayer of St. Sometimes we shy away from the light, afraid of what it will reveal sometimes we long for it to show us what is going on and help us find the way. The light of a candle is like that the light of Christ is like that. The light illuminated equally the beauty and scars, pain and hope, poverty and wealth. Holding it high above our heads, he proclaimed: “Behold the light of the universe.”Īnd the light of the candle illuminated everything: the worn-out coats and equally worn-out faces, the eyes intent on prayer books or raised to the flame, the insignificant little huddle of humanity in the midst of a restless modern city. Some were volunteers, some “regulars” who came to eat at this urban mission to the poor. The 15 people gathered in the darkened chapel were singing, in various degrees of relationship to the melody, for vespers was already well underway.
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