13th December, 2013: Remembering St. Lucy
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If we have noticed carefully, there is a constant reference in the Gospel this week to John the Baptist. From last Sunday, the Gospel and the preface keep presenting to us the figure of John the Baptist, to challenge us regarding how prepared we are for the Coming of the Lord! Today we are made to reflect on the difference between "being childish" and "being child-like." Unless you become like a child you will not enter the Reign of God - but that in no way means you remain childish!
Jesus gives a simple example - being childish is being so centered on yourself that you wish everything around you happens as you wish and everyone does what you wish! Being childlike is being prophetic, being like the persons of God who abandon everything into the hands of God with total confidence in God and in God alone, like St. Lucy the fourth century martyr whom we celebrate today!
Let us be like children, let us be child-like; let us walk with our hands in the hands of God, thus we will be persons worthy of the reign of God.