DAILY GOSPEL: 31/12/2010
«Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.» John 6,68
The Seventh Day in the Octave of Christmas
First Letter of John 2:18-21.
Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that the antichrist was coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. Thus we know this is the last hour.
They went out from us, but they were not really of our number; if they had been, they would have remained with us. Their desertion shows that none of them was of our number.
But you have the anointing that comes from the holy one, and you all have knowledge.
I write to you not because you do not know the truth but because you do, and because every lie is alien to the truth.
Psalms 96(95):1-2.11-12.13.
Sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth.
Sing to the LORD, bless his name; announce his salvation day after day.
Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice; let the sea and what fills it resound;
let the plains be joyful and all that is in them. Then let all the trees of the forest rejoice
before the LORD who comes, who comes to govern the earth, To govern the world with justice and the peoples with faithfulness.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 1:1-18.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God.
All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be. What came to be
through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race;
the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
A man named John was sent from God.
He came for testimony, to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him.
He was not the light, but came to testify to the light.
The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.
He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, but the world did not know him.
He came to what was his own, but his own people did not accept him.
But to those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name,
who were born not by natural generation nor by human choice nor by a man's decision but of God.
And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father's only Son, full of grace and truth.
John testified to him and cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'The one who is coming after me ranks ahead of me because he existed before me.'"
From his fullness we have all received, grace in place of grace,
because while the law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
No one has ever seen God. The only Son, God, who is at the Father's side, has revealed him.
Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that the antichrist was coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. Thus we know this is the last hour.
They went out from us, but they were not really of our number; if they had been, they would have remained with us. Their desertion shows that none of them was of our number.
But you have the anointing that comes from the holy one, and you all have knowledge.
I write to you not because you do not know the truth but because you do, and because every lie is alien to the truth.
Psalms 96(95):1-2.11-12.13.
Sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth.
Sing to the LORD, bless his name; announce his salvation day after day.
Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice; let the sea and what fills it resound;
let the plains be joyful and all that is in them. Then let all the trees of the forest rejoice
before the LORD who comes, who comes to govern the earth, To govern the world with justice and the peoples with faithfulness.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 1:1-18.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God.
All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be. What came to be
through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race;
the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
A man named John was sent from God.
He came for testimony, to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him.
He was not the light, but came to testify to the light.
The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.
He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, but the world did not know him.
He came to what was his own, but his own people did not accept him.
But to those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name,
who were born not by natural generation nor by human choice nor by a man's decision but of God.
And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father's only Son, full of grace and truth.
John testified to him and cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'The one who is coming after me ranks ahead of me because he existed before me.'"
From his fullness we have all received, grace in place of grace,
because while the law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
No one has ever seen God. The only Son, God, who is at the Father's side, has revealed him.
Jn 1,1-18
San Máximo de Turín (?-C.420), el obispo
Sermón 10, sobre la Natividad del Señor, PL 57,24
«Unigénito del Padre antes de todas las edades ..., que se encarnó de la Virgen María» (Credo de Constantinopla)
Leemos, queridos hermanos, que hay dos nacimientos en Cristo: ambos son la expresión de un poder divino que nos supera por completo. Por un lado, Dios genera a su hijo de su propio ser y, por otro, una virgen lo ha concebido por la intervención de Dios ... Por un lado, nace para crear la vida, y por el otro para llevar la muerte. En el primero, que nace de su Padre, en el segundo, que es traído al mundo por los seres humanos. Por su generación del Padre que está en los orígenes del hombre, por su nacimiento humano que establece la humanidad libre. Ambos tipos de nacimiento son, propiamente hablando, inefable y en el momento mismo inseparables ...
En la enseñanza de que hay dos nacimientos en Cristo no pretendemos decir que el Hijo de Dios ha nacido dos veces, pero estamos afirmando la doble naturaleza en un solo y mismo Hijo de Dios. Por un lado, lo que ya existía nace, por el otro, lo que no existe todavía como se lleva adelante. El evangelista Juan afirma bendijo con estas palabras: «En el principio era el Verbo y el Verbo era con Dios y el Verbo era Dios» y otra vez: «. La Palabra se hizo carne»
Así que Dios estaba con Dios salió de él y la carne de Dios, que no pertenecía a Dios es fruto de una mujer. Así la Palabra se hizo carne, no de tal manera que Dios se constituyó en el hombre, pero para que el hombre podría ser gloriosamente resucitado a Dios. Por eso Dios no ha nacido dos veces, pero por medio de estos dos tipos de nacimiento - a saber, la de Dios y la del hombre - el Hijo único del Padre desea para ser a la vez Dios y hombre en una sola persona. «¿Quién, entonces, puede decir su nacimiento?» (Is 53,8 Vg.).
En la enseñanza de que hay dos nacimientos en Cristo no pretendemos decir que el Hijo de Dios ha nacido dos veces, pero estamos afirmando la doble naturaleza en un solo y mismo Hijo de Dios. Por un lado, lo que ya existía nace, por el otro, lo que no existe todavía como se lleva adelante. El evangelista Juan afirma bendijo con estas palabras: «En el principio era el Verbo y el Verbo era con Dios y el Verbo era Dios» y otra vez: «. La Palabra se hizo carne»
Así que Dios estaba con Dios salió de él y la carne de Dios, que no pertenecía a Dios es fruto de una mujer. Así la Palabra se hizo carne, no de tal manera que Dios se constituyó en el hombre, pero para que el hombre podría ser gloriosamente resucitado a Dios. Por eso Dios no ha nacido dos veces, pero por medio de estos dos tipos de nacimiento - a saber, la de Dios y la del hombre - el Hijo único del Padre desea para ser a la vez Dios y hombre en una sola persona. «¿Quién, entonces, puede decir su nacimiento?» (Is 53,8 Vg.).
St. Sylvester I, Pope, (+ 335)
SAINT SYLVESTER
Pope
(? - 335)
Pope
(? - 335)
Sylvester was born in Rome toward the close of the third century.
He was a young priest when the persecution of the Christians broke out under the tyrant Diocletian. Idols were erected at the corners of the streets, in the market-places, and over the public fountains, so that it was scarcely possible for a Christian to go abroad without being put to the test of offering sacrifice, with the alternative of apostasy or death. During this fiery trial, Sylvester strengthened the confessors and martyrs, God preserving his life from many dangers.
In 312 a new era set in. Constantine, having triumphed under the " standard of the Cross," declared himself the protector of the Christians, and built them splendid churches. At this juncture Sylvester was elected to the chair of Peter, and was thus the first of the Roman Pontiffs to rule the flock of Christ in security and peace. He profited by these blessings to renew the discipline of the Church, and in two great Councils confirmed her sacred truths. In the Council of Arles he condemned the schism of the Donatists; and in that of Nicæa, the first general Council of the Church, he dealt Arianism its death-blow by declaring that Jesus Christ is the true and very God.
Sylvester died A. D. 335.
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