Epiphany - January 6, 2025
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The feast of the Epiphany is our feast. Not only that of the Magi who took their place before the Nativity scene, but of all those who are not part of the chosen people, pagans in the eyes of observant Jews, invited before the Savior. Feast of foreigners, of emigrants, of those who could not be there, because they had problems integrating with the chosen people. In the second reading, Saint Paul explains why he had been called to preach the gospel to the pagans: because what had not been revealed until then had to be revealed by the apostles. This news at the time was so subversive and revolutionary that it caused the first bloody crisis between Jesus and the chosen people. Herod, who orders the massacre of the innocents, is the first to not understand the meaning of the passage from the Old to the New Alliance, that the new Israel will not be a threat to the old, because the Kingdom of this king who was born is not of this world. This new kingdom is born from the blood of the innocents that the new king himself announces. St. Paul asks himself the question: why did the people chosen by God, to whom belong the Law, the patriarchs, the scriptures, the promises, up to the Messiah, born of their own flesh, not recognize the Messiah that God sent them and why did the pagans, who did not have the right, triumphantly enter to be part of the chosen people? Does God not keep his promises? Paul answers the Romans by putting in the mouth of God the words of Isaiah: “I was found by those who did not seek me (the pagans, us!), I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me” (Rom 10:20). But then does God contradict himself? Paul found the answer in the unfathomable and immense mercy of God, incomprehensible to human reason: “I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will be gracious to whom I will have mercy” (Rom 9:15). Paul concludes: “O the abyss of God’s mercy, riches, wisdom and knowledge! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!”. Everything is mercy and can only be explained in the immensity of God's love, incomprehensible to human reason. Mary and Joseph with the Child in the cave surrounded by the shepherds, the poor of Israel and the Magi, the wise men of the pagans. Merit or demerit do not count. The important thing is that God can show mercy.
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