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Readings: Isaiah 8:23 – 9:3;Today we celebrate the “Sunday of the Word of God.”
Today’s Liturgy of the Word bears witness to God’s unfailing fidelity to His relationship with humankind. The first reading from Isaiah talked about the people of Israel living under Assyrian domination about 700 years before Christ. They felt they were living in darkness. But there was a greater darkness enveloping them: it was the darkness of their sin, their rebellion against God. In fact, this darkness of sin brought about their oppression by a foreign power.
All these years of preparation were necessary because people were hard-hearted, they preferred to live in darkness, the darkness of sin. They must now decide to turn away from their sinfulness to be ready for the coming of the Messiah and be bathed in His light. After proclaiming the kingdom, Jesus proceeded to call His first four apostles from two sets of brothers, Peter and Andrew, James and John. They responded. Their response was first of all to Jesus’ call of repentance and acceptance of life in the kingdom. While all this was personal to the first four apostles, their call and response also reflected God’s deeper and far-reaching Will, the Will to extend the call to all humankind in every corner of the earth and of every generation.
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