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Daily Reading for 9 December 2005
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Light and fire
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Sometimes the seasons are strange. We can get an Indian summer with bright sunshine into October and November. Only recently did we get frost and the hint of Christmas. I often wonder about Australia. It's coming up to mid-summer there. And yet they celebrate Christmas in the burning sun.
When we recall Jesus, the light of the world, at the darkest moments of the year, the whole of nature resonates with our liturgy and our secular celebrations. We do not know when Christ was born: we recall his birth at the time of year that best echoes his symbolic meaning. If he is light from light, it makes sense to remember him in deep mid-winter. Maybe in Australia they attend to the fire motif: “I have come”, said Jesus, “to bring fire on earth, and would that it were already kindled”.
CCC 696: “The spiritual tradition has retained this symbolism of fire as one of the most expressive images of the Holy Spirit’s actions”.
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