Wednesday of the Second Week of Easter
(Acts 5:17-26; John 3:16-21)
Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel entitled the
English edition of his memoir of Auschwitz Night. He used the word to
symbolize the horror of a human population’s being corralled, isolated,
enslaved, and exterminated. Today’s
gospel reveals God’s purpose of sending His Son to the world to save it from
such darkness.
As much as “darkness” represents evil, “light” suggests
divinity. God’s first order of creation
in Genesis is, “Let there be light.” At
the Bible’s other end, the Book Revelation describes the glory of God giving light
to His renewed creation. in the middle
of the saga Jesus Christ, “the Light of the World,” exposes evil and facilitates
growth in virtue.
Still basking in the light of the Resurrection, we recommit ourselves
to Christ today. His spiritual guidance steers us away from the attractive
power of darkness. His love offered
tangibly in the Eucharist nourishes us on the journey through a cloudy world to
the fulness of light.
