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Seventh Day within the Octave of the Nativity of the Lord
1 John 2:18-21
Psalm 96:1-2, 11-12, 13
John 1:1-18
Summary
Today’s Responsorial Psalm continues to carry us along on the cloud of joy
which we experienced yesterday in our celebration of the Birth of Christ! ‘Let
the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice’, leads us into the beginning of the
Gospel of John where we are filled with wonder and joy that “theWord became
flesh and made His dwelling among us”!
Reflection
In the words of the Psalm, we should be singing a new song to the Lord! How
fitting a thought for today. After all of our spiritual preparation and waiting
through the four weeks of Advent, yesterday was the culmination of everything
we had been anticipating and hoping for! Once again, we celebrated the birth-
day of our Saviour, our King, our God-incarnate best-friend. Hopefully, we all
found some new-ness in our hearts and in our celebration. In reality, much of
our preparation and activity over the last four weeks has probably revolved
around shopping, writing cards, wrapping presents, baking, and hitting as many
parties as we possibly could. But alas, it’s not too late to marvel at the miracle of
what just happened – yes, that’s right, today we can begin to ‘sing a NEW song
to the Lord’. We
needn’t discard the
beautiful Christmas
Carols which we car-
ry with us and
(hopefully) continue
to listen to (although
the rest of the coun-
try seems to think
that Christmas ended
with the stroke of
midnight last night),
but rather we can
create a new song –
one that is complete-
ly our own. Even