Wednesday December 27, 2017
OHow privileged people feel to have a glimpse of the Pope, a living Saint, or a charismatic world leader! How eagerly people reach out to touch them or to have a photograph taken with them! If this is how we feel about earthly leaders, how would we feel about the privilege to see, hear, touch, and live with the Word who is Life! St. John, whose memory we keep today, writes about how privileged he and the other apostles were to have heard, seen, touched, and lived with Christ, the Word of God. He shares his experience of God with us in order to complete his joy, just as Jesus shared with the apostles his experience of the Father for his joy to be in them and their joy to be complete (Jn 15:11).
How privileged must we feel, for we are able to see, touch, and feed on the Lord in the Eucharist! How blessed are we to see and serve him in every human being around us!
