The liturgy of Christmas continues until the Sunday after Epiphany. Therefore even today we are to contemplate on the mystery of the incarnation of God’s Son! It’s a mystery that fills us with joy, but also that helps us to think again on the new and profound meaning of life and of all things and of all the events.

Our First Reading comes to us from the Book of the Ecclessiasticus. It’s Wisdom that speaks to us, as if it was a person. It’s not difficult for us to understand for as if it’s the Word of God, His Son that is saying: "…my throne is on a colomn of clouds…my creator made me put my tent and said: Put the tent in Jacob…Before ages, from the beginning, He created me…"

The words of this text serv as a good introduction to the gospel that was proclaimed to us at Christmas. It is so rich for our meditation! The Verb is here called true light that comes into the world. Light is necessary for every one. The word light is not only referred to that of the sun, but to that inner light of understanding that every human being need to have to feel a person, a beloved person, useful, necessary, great and, above all, son and daughter of God! The true light that comes to us is the one that bring to an end the doubts and errors that keep threating the opinion of humans of themselves. How many ways of thinking, or way of views, call it philosophy, have kept many prisioners and deceived through the centuries! Finally, it’s to this true light that I know that I’m loved by the Father, know that I come from Him, that I have a sure word on which I can build my life, come to know that I am a son, that I have many brothers and sisters. It’s because of this light that I know that I’m called to holiness and of being able to enjoy every spiritual blessing!

This is how st. Paul expresses himself in today’s second reading. Even he, enlighted from high, discovered with joy his true spiritual identity and the true identity of God, Father of glory! He has only this wish for the Christians, for us: that God might enlighten the eyes of our minds to help us understand "what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints"!

Jesus is our light: thanks to Him we know the Father, and thanks to Him we receive the fullness of the love of the Father!

We adore you, Lord Jesus, you enlighten and overcome the darkness of our hearts. You come to us and give us the strength we need to overcome the darkness that threathen us from the outside with the seduction of what is seen. We adore you, living Son of God! We adore you, Light from Light, true God from true God, we adore you! When you come, make out of us children for the Father, true sons and daughters of God! Thanks to you we know how to give back the love we receive from Him! Thankyou Lord Jesus!