![]() Untie the thongs of the yoke that binds us. Jesus, we are not fit to loosen your sandal strap. Cry out, oh prophet and friend of the Light! See how the waters now gleam, grace translucent! What greater prophet than thee who has seen the dove, too, descend, and the very voice of the Father descend, to adore the adoring Light! And still has not diminished the Light.Ĭry out, dear John, full-throated and unsparingly! Dear herald. The Father's Word, the good light of the human race, bowed in the bowels of the Jordan. It is the second day the day after the darkness the day of the Light. All purity, all humility what humility! We had not ever encountered such a gesture. ![]() Water flows down upon his lowered head, upon his shoulders and arms, crossed in the newness of birth, in the deference of love. and now, again, into the dark waters of the Jordan, the coil of human sin, of human un-love. The Word who was with God, and who was God, descended into Flesh, the flesh of a body, of the womb of a virgin-mother, of a family, a livelihood, a community, a people, a nation into the flesh of history. "Make straight the way!" "Behold the Lamb of God!" Matthew 3:17 and parallels), while the Spirit descends on him to invest him with the mission which he is to carry out." Pope John Paul II ![]() 2 Corinthians 5:21), the heavens open wide and the voice of the Father declares him the beloved Son (cf. Here, as Christ descends into the waters, the innocent one who became 'sin' for our sake (cf. "The Baptism in the Jordan is first of all a mystery of light. Scriptural Reflections: John 1:1-34 Genesis 1:1-8 Isaiah 58:1 Here we present the Pope's words along with scriptural reflections on the new mysteries by Marijane Camilleri, an American writer studying in Rome. Thursday would then be free for meditating on the 'mysteries of light.'" "If we consider that the 'glorious mysteries' are said on both Saturday and Sunday, and that Saturday has always had a special Marian flavor, the second weekly meditation on the 'joyful mysteries,' mysteries in which Mary's presence is especially pronounced, could be moved to Saturday. "Where might the 'mysteries of light' by inserted?" the Pope writes. He then proposes that the joyful mysteries be prayed on Monday and Saturday, the sorrowful on Tuesday and Friday, and the glorious on Wednesday and Sunday. The Pope suggests that the luminous mysteries be prayed on Thursday. According to current practice, Monday and Thursday are dedicated to the joyful mysteries, Tuesday and Friday to the sorrowful, and Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday to the glorious.
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