In the Entrance Antiphon of today's liturgy, we pray: "Behold the Lord, the Mighty One, has come; and kingship is in his grasp, and power and dominion."
In the news every day we are bombarded by claims of leaders throughout the world of their alleged power, dominion and efforts to be "king" of the world, one vying against another for power and control! Or we are showered by other's claims of the "greatness" of the person they perceive as "almighty" and as the one who will save us from the mire into which we have fallen and continue to fall!
There is one king, Christ, the Lord, "the Mighty One". Kingship, power and dominion rest in His hands and His alone. We wait for God's glorious intervention, as the immorality, the corruption, the deception, the criminality dominating the world, I believe, is beyond our power to transform. We need and await God's intervention, as we strive personally to live hold lives. The Scriptures tells us that our God comes with power to save us. There is no one here on earth, in any country, capable of saving us from evil powers that are rampant throughout the world!
Today we celebrate the feast of Epiphany--God reveals Himself as King of all the earth and all who live on it. Isaiah, in today's first reading, beckons us to "[r]ise up in splendor...Your light has come,
the glory of the Lord shines upon you. See, darkness covers the earth, and thick clouds cover the peoples [who choose evil, live corrupt lives, are slaves to Satan's lies, and who are chasing God substitutes]; but upon you the Lord shines, and over you appears his glory.....[Like the Magi who brought gifts to the newborn king] you shall be radiant at what you see [when you seek God above all else and place your trust in Him, the Mighty One], and your heart shall throb and overflow, for the riches of the sea shall be emptied out before you [as you seek the Lord and sing His praises]!"
May you and I, like the Magi, seek and find Jesus, following the light of His guidance today and every day! Our lives will then overflow with praise and gratitude, as did the lives of the Magi!
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