Wednesday, April 15 : Blessed Columba Marmion

“I am the truth” (Jn 14:6). By our natural condition, we walk, here on earth, in darkness (cf. Lk 1:79). To rise to God, we must be supernaturally enlightened. Christ alone manifests religious truth, “He is the light of the world” (Jn 8:12). His teaching, without dispelling all obscurity, allows us to recognize him as the one sent by the Father and to adhere to him as the supreme and infallible Truth. “God is my light” (Ps 26:1). The Gospel brings to the world the revelation of all the great religious truths: that of the Trinity, of the incarnation, of redemption, of the sanctions of the afterlife. He also reveals to men the mystery of divine paternity. When Jesus speaks to us about God, he always represents him as our Father: “I go back to my Father, and your Father” (Jn 20:17)! It is one of the characteristics of the New Testament to have taught us to name God our Father, to behave towards him as his children (cf. Mt 6:9; Rm 8:16). With divine paternity, Jesus further reveals to us our adoption, our heavenly and blessed destiny, all the attitudes of charity and virtue specific to the Christian. Let us collect these doctrines from his blessed lips, let us realize that they emanate from Truth itself; let us cling to them with unshakeable faith. Furthermore, Christ still brings the truth through a very personal grace of illumination of our soul. This illumination specific to each person is essential to the progress of the life of Christ in us. (…) We must therefore consider the paths here below in the light of faith in Christ. Let us place it like a divine lamp in the middle of our heart. Let us throw our ideas, our judgments, our desires at the feet of Jesus, in order to look at the world, people and events as through his eyes. Then we will appreciate the things of time and those of eternity at their true value.

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