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In the beginning there was nothing, not even time. Then The Word was spoken and everything came into being, within time and beyond. This Word was with God (John 1:1), the same Word who affirmed to His people of disbelief that “even before Abraham, I am”. The Word created everything good, seen and unseen. Man, dearest creation of The Word among all He created, let disobedience ruin the sanctity of a covenant that was born from the bosom of eternity. Sin and its master (Satan) seeped-in amidst what was meant to be infinitely blameless. To blot out this offence, so grave that only The Almighty Himself would have to reconcile, The Word became incarnate. The One who was Most Holy – (hágios: means “likeness of nature with the Lord” because “different from the world”), seated on the throne of righteousness, who created everything Holy, now wills by His merciful and everlasting loving heart to be one in flesh among the unrighteous. Because what is His cannot be lost forever. He had to reclaim, rebuild and renew.

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The Word walked in the cool of the day (righteousness and unblemished nature, cf: Genesis 3:8). But now sin caused His immaculate being to walk on the sod of corruption, deceit and everything unclean. He fearfully caused man to be born out of nothing and nurtured him in His sacred paradise, a paradise where the aroma of sanctity wrapped every matter & spirit. But behold, man caused that very ‘I am’ to be born in a cave where the stench of cattle’s waste and dirt repelled any human dwelling. But the Lord of humility, the God of love, the Master of mercy, chose to make an undesirable cave; repudiation of purity, become a sanctuary of The Divine where the humble & poor (Shepherds), the wise & just (Magi) were led to worship. Wrapped in swaddling clothes, in a manger lay ‘Emmanuel’. Guarded on one side by the carpenter; the renowned off-spring of David, whose obedience and faith made him the foster father of ‘The Logos’, and on the other side cared by the virgin whose immaculate nature entitled her to become ‘The Theotokos’.

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My dear friends, in the words of St. Paul, “do you (and I) not know that your (and mine) are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you (and me), whom you (and I) have received from God? (1 Cor 6:19-20). Sin makes us unmindful of this truth. Our body & soul which was meant to be a heavenly abode, has been corrupted into a dungeon of sin. Our body & soul which was created to be a holy temple, by sin is now vulnerable to the fatal danger of becoming a tomb for the dead. This sleaze of iniquity, however, did not have any power to repel The Word to reclaim, rebuild and renew.

So do not be afraid. Do not lose hope. Do not feel rejected. The Word is Jesus. The Babe of Bethlehem who has the earnest desire to be born in the manger of your heart. Even if it is shabby, He sees it worthy. Even if it is unclean, He can make it serene. Even if it is miserable, He will make grace feasible. And even if it is unwanted, for Him it is most wanted. Repent and believe, you are His homeland.

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Glory to the new born King. Merry Christmas, dear friends!

The Yoke of Christ

10 Wednesday Dec 2014

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In today’s first reading from the book of the great prophet Isaiah, the Holy One sets a confronting tone while speaking to Jacob. It sounds as though the heaven’s rumbled, thunders roared and lightening clashed as The Holiest of Holy questioned and declared, “To whom can you compare me, or who is my equal?…Yahweh is the everlasting God, he created the remotest parts of the earth. He gives strength to the weary, He strengthens the powerless…but those who hope in Yahweh will regain their strength, they will sprout wings like eagles, though they run they will not grow weary, though they walk they will never tire.”

The Magisterium of the Catholic Church, through CCC magnifies the essence of what Isaiah testifies in his book. CCC Para 208: “Faced with God’s fascinating and mysterious presence, man discovers his own insignificance. Before the burning bush, Moses takes off his sandals and veils his face in the presence of God’s holiness.13 Before the glory of the thrice-holy God, Isaiah cries out: “Woe is me! I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips.”14 Before the divine signs wrought by Jesus, Peter exclaims: “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.”15 But because God is holy, he can forgive the man who realizes that he is a sinner before him: “I will not execute my fierce anger. . . for I am God and not man, the Holy One in your midst.”16 The apostle John says likewise: “We shall. . . reassure our hearts before him whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.”

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Throughout His ministry on earth, Jesus gave praise, honour and glory to His Father, whom He presented to the world as The One who teaches Him everything (John 15:15). As a testimony to His Word and an echo of His Father’s voice in the Old Testament, Jesus the Good Shepherd, Priest, King and God, assures our weary heart with these words of great consolation, and nourishment for our soul.

“Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest.29 Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden light’ (Matt 11:28-30).

Through His ignominious passion and death, Jesus bore the weight of our suffering. He conquered death by rising from the dead on the third day, His glorious resurrection. Thus mankind rose from the burden of a weight that only life could overweigh. He bore the cross with charity and love, thus teaching us that His love pierces through the toughest of situations, every abyss of hopelessness, despair or guilt. His crucifixion is an immeasurable manifestation of His words, “I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”

The yoke of Christ is easy, because His yoke is obedience to His Father, in other words, – to perfect will, and to join our will to that obedience is to experience the joy that He experienced even in His sufferings. As Jesus is in His Father and His Father in Him, if we shoulder His yoke, He in us, will make our burden light and easy, as did His Father make His burden light when He had to bare the entire weight of mankind’s sin.

In times of our weariness let us always remember and imbibe strength from God’s word in the book of Lamentations, “It is good to wait in silence for Yahweh to save. 27 It is good for someone to bear the yoke from a young age, 28 to sit in solitude and silence when it weighs heavy, 29 to lay one’s head in the dust — maybe there is hope- 30 to offer one’s cheek to the striker, to have one’s fill of disgrace! 31 For the Lord will not reject anyone for ever.” Amen.

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