Christmas Day Year C

Christmas Day

John 1: 1-14

Gaze on the darkness of the midnight sky over a rough sea. Gaze on a lighthouse, painted bright white, seeming to grow out of the rocky island it is built upon. This is not a place of safety. Waves lash the rocks, the wind roars and spray covers you with salt. Picture the shipwrecks that occurred here before the lighthouse was built, the sailors and passengers who lost their lives and never reached their destination. Now gaze on the pulse of light that emanates from its powerful lamps. The wide beam trembles on the unquiet waves. Here is a light to rescue the traveller, a light that shines in the darkness, a light with a life-saving task...