By Vimal Kumar csc –
Readings: I Jn 2:18-21; Jn 1:1-18
‘Every Beginning has an end, and every end is a new beginning’. We are in the Christmas octave, and today is the last day of the year 2021 and a brand-new beginning tomorrow to welcome 2022.
Today’s gospel prompts us that Christ is always the new beginning with no end. By bearing witness to Christ, we become the new beginning for our own selves and for those who have relied on us. Christ brought hope, salvation, peace, and love to commence the God’s kingdom on Earth. Perhaps John the Baptist was a true witness to Jesus’ arrival on earth as we read in today’s gospel.
God’s word was incarnated, became a light of hope to shine in the darkness of the world. Christ is the Word who presented the kingdom of God’s values through his teachings: justice to the neglected, preference for the poor, inclusivism of culture, and a voice against the oppressed. Christ is the light who dispelled the social and political darkness in the world completely through his concrete deeds.
Consequently, the gospel offers us assurance to become the sharers of Christ’s light to shine brightly amidst the pandemic, lockdowns, Covid restrictions, hopeless situations of life today.
Without endings, we cannot have new beginnings. Let us be a new beginning to end all the political, social, and economic discriminations, making Christ more visible in our actions to welcome the New year2022.