Walking in the light
The Christ by El Greco
There is no Christian tenet more simple than “God is love” and no prayer more direct than “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior, have mercy on me, a sinner.”
Our Sunday Gospel today was the Lenten discourse on light that tells of the blind man healed by Jesus, but the alternate reading from John 3 is one of the passages that is at the heart of our Catholic faith:
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.
Whoever believes in him will not be condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the verdict, that the light came into the world, but people preferred darkness to light, because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come toward the light, so that his works might not be exposed. But whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be
clearly seen as done in God.
The Light of the World calls us to the light, but some still prefer to dwell in darkness. Basking in His light is the reward of the just and eternal darkness the punishment of the unjust. That is as simple to understand as “God is love.”
