The Word made Flesh

Tuesday, December 31, 2019
7th Day Octave of Christmas 1st Reading:
1 Jn 2:18-21 Gospel: John 1:1-18
In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was with God and the Word was God; he was in the beginning with God.
All things were made through him and without him nothing came to be. Whatever has come to be, found life in him, life which for humans was also light. Light that shines in the dark: light that darkness could not overcome. A man came, sent by God; his name was John. He came to bear witness, as a witness to introduce the Light so that all might believe through him. He was not the Light but a witness to introduce the Light.
For the Light was coming into the world, the true Light that enlightens everyone. He was already in the world and through him the world was made, the very world that did not know him. He came to his own, yet his own people did not receive him; but all who have received him he empowers to become children of God for they believe in his Name.
These are born, but without seed or carnal desire or will of man: they are born of God. And the Word was made flesh; he had his tent pitched among us, and we have seen his Glory, the Glory of the only Son coming from the Father: fullness of truth and loving-kindness.
John bore witness to him open­ly, saying: This is the one who comes after me, but he is already ahead of me for he was before me.
From his fullness we have all re­ceived, favor upon favor. For God had given us the Law through Moses, but Truth and Loving-kindness came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God, but God-the-Only-Son made him known: the one who is in and with the Fa­ther.
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience)
Words can be manipulated. A joke is told of a Pilipino teacher who asked a student to use “kay sa kay” (compared to) in a sentence. One answered correctly with “Mas Masipag si Nolie kay sa kay Miguel”. But a naughty student replied with “Si Juan ay mabilis tumakbo KAY SAKAY man siya sa kalabaw” (Juan runs faster because he is riding a horse).
Yes, words can be manipulated, but not the Word that became flesh. Because it is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow it has no meaning other than the truth. As truth, the Word-made-flesh is also the Way and the Life. To be faithful to this Word, one must embrace the Truth as a Way of Life. How? By respecting the purpose for which God redeemed humanity. God saved us because he cannot allow us to be lost forever to the devil. When our life embraces this truth our way of life will forever exclude the way of the devil. Then shall we run fast the highway of spirituality like we are on horseback. – (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., J.D., D.M.