Fr. Jorge Miró shares with Exaudi readers his commentary on the Gospel of this Sunday, January 5, 2025, entitled “The Word Became Flesh and dwelt among Us”
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Today’s celebration wants to help you savour the riches of Christmas. It invites you to contemplate the mystery of the Incarnation, to discover the true nature of man in the light of Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh.
Because Christmas can be reduced to pure consumerism, enormous sentimentality, or a simple historical memory…
Therefore, the Word of God that we proclaim today reminds you of the central message of Christmas: God became man so that you might be divinized, and the Word became flesh to give you salvation.
The Gospel also reminds you that He came to His own. Still, His own did not receive Him, and, with this, it asks you to receive the Lord who is here so that you can enjoy the salvation that He brings you, that He gives you: but to all who received Him, to them, He gave the power to become children of God, to those who believe in His name.
Believing in the name of Jesus is to recognize what the person of Jesus is: the Son of God come in the flesh. And to accept Him and give yourself completely to Him. Whoever believes in this way and opens their heart to the Lord, receives the power to be a child of God. This is a gift. It is a true new birth that is the exclusive work of the Holy Spirit: these have not been born of blood, nor of the desire of the flesh, nor of the desire of man, but have been born of God.
Receiving the Lord means opening your heart wide open to Him, letting Him fill it, and accepting without conditions the path that He proposes to you in order to reach that salvation that He brings you as a gift. Receiving the Lord means, ultimately, letting yourself be loved by Him.
That is why today’s Gospel proposes that you look deep into your heart and ask yourself if you have truly received Jesus, if it is truly evident in your life that you believe that God has become man in Jesus Christ. This is the way of Life.
That is why sometimes we find ourselves frustrated, dissatisfied, resentful, empty… Because when we do not want to let the Lord into our hearts, and we insist on living “our” life… we end up in a terrible loneliness! (cf. Dt 32). Only God is enough. He who opens his heart to Him can find true happiness and full realization as a person.
God is close to you. He is knocking at the door of your life! He wants to be your companion on the journey. He wants to grant you salvation in your life, in your history, in your cross.
Have you received Jesus? Is He in your heart? In what things in your life should it be most noticeable that you believe that Jesus is the Lord?
Do not be afraid! Open your heart to the Lord!
Come, Holy Spirit!
The Word became flesh and dwelt among us: Fr. Jorge Miró
Sunday, January 5, 2025
Fr. Jorge Miró shares with Exaudi readers his commentary on the Gospel of this Sunday, January 5, 2025, entitled “The Word Became Flesh and dwelt among Us”
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Today’s celebration wants to help you savour the riches of Christmas. It invites you to contemplate the mystery of the Incarnation, to discover the true nature of man in the light of Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh.
Because Christmas can be reduced to pure consumerism, enormous sentimentality, or a simple historical memory…
Therefore, the Word of God that we proclaim today reminds you of the central message of Christmas: God became man so that you might be divinized, and the Word became flesh to give you salvation.
The Gospel also reminds you that He came to His own. Still, His own did not receive Him, and, with this, it asks you to receive the Lord who is here so that you can enjoy the salvation that He brings you, that He gives you: but to all who received Him, to them, He gave the power to become children of God, to those who believe in His name.
Believing in the name of Jesus is to recognize what the person of Jesus is: the Son of God come in the flesh. And to accept Him and give yourself completely to Him. Whoever believes in this way and opens their heart to the Lord, receives the power to be a child of God. This is a gift. It is a true new birth that is the exclusive work of the Holy Spirit: these have not been born of blood, nor of the desire of the flesh, nor of the desire of man, but have been born of God.
Receiving the Lord means opening your heart wide open to Him, letting Him fill it, and accepting without conditions the path that He proposes to you in order to reach that salvation that He brings you as a gift. Receiving the Lord means, ultimately, letting yourself be loved by Him.
That is why today’s Gospel proposes that you look deep into your heart and ask yourself if you have truly received Jesus, if it is truly evident in your life that you believe that God has become man in Jesus Christ. This is the way of Life.
That is why sometimes we find ourselves frustrated, dissatisfied, resentful, empty… Because when we do not want to let the Lord into our hearts, and we insist on living “our” life… we end up in a terrible loneliness! (cf. Dt 32). Only God is enough. He who opens his heart to Him can find true happiness and full realization as a person.
God is close to you. He is knocking at the door of your life! He wants to be your companion on the journey. He wants to grant you salvation in your life, in your history, in your cross.
Have you received Jesus? Is He in your heart? In what things in your life should it be most noticeable that you believe that Jesus is the Lord?
Do not be afraid! Open your heart to the Lord!
Come, Holy Spirit!
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