Light the Candles

 Fr. Daniel O’Leary

On the night before Christmas, Theologian Karl Rayner hears God whispering to us: “When you celebrate tomorrow say to God, ‘You are here. You have come. You have come into everything that exists, into everything that we are". Say only that one thing. That is enough. It is Christmas. Light the candles. They have more right to exist than all the darkness. It is Christmas that lasts forever.”

And then, in that silent moment, the serious wonder of it strikes us; it is we ourselves, lit from within by the radiance of God, who are called to be those candles of hope, shining incarnate light in a world and in a church lost too often in the dark. 

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