In our recent celebration of the Christmas Season, we recalled how Christ brought Light into the world by manifesting the presence of God through His birth.
In the Gospel reading, we see how Christ is now manifesting God's presence through the Kingdom that is now present on Earth, by proclaiming the Kingdom, healing the sick, and calling people to turn from their ways of life and follow Him into a new way of life. Through these actions, Christ brings God's Light to the world to those in darkness, as the prophecy foretells in the reading from Isaiah.
And He is drawing people together in Himself, which is why St. Paul exhorts the people to not engage in meaningless quarrels about who they follow, but to seek after the One God through Christ, proclaiming by their unity His presence among us, just like the bold preaching of the Dominicans for the past 800 years.
We enter a new way of Life in Christ as He shines His light on us, so that we may shine His Light forth unto all the world by giving of ourselves to follow His way, which is the way of salvation, in which we experience the ultimate goodness of abiding forever in His presence.
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