4 Jan
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Weekday of Christmas
(Psalter Wk I)
1 Jn. 3:7-10
Ps. 98:1,7-8,9
Jn. 1:35-42
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"What do you want?" Do we know what we want? We want something: We are not satisfied with ourselves, with our lives, with our friends (or non-friends), with our surroundings, we need something or someone to fill our emptiness, but what, or who can do this?

"Teacher, where do you live?" The two disciples are asking for something else than Jesus' address; extending to them His name card would not answer their question. They need communion with Jesus, a person-to-person relationship, not the protocol of exchanging name cards.

"Come and see". This is the answer that meets their question. And this is what they needed: an intimate experience of His company. They had learned about Jesus from John's preaching, as we do from sermons, or from the religion class; but this is not the knowledge of Jesus that satisfies our needs; the knowledge has to be inner, the result of a heart-to-heart conversation with Him in solitude. We have to withdraw from the noise of the crowded streets and come to a quiet chapel, to a retreat house to meet Him there.

"It was 4pm." Twenty years after the meeting, the disciple could recall the exact hour. It had been an unforgettable experience! They had found what they were looking for, they "came and saw", they met Him where He was.



Lord, tell me what I want, for I want something, but cannot say what it is! Lord, show me "where you live", show Yourself to me.

DAILY OFFERING
Eternal Father, I offer You everything I do this day; my thoughts, words, joys and sufferings. Grant that, vivified by the Holy Spirit and united to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, my life this day may be of service to You and to others. I also pray that all those preparing for marriage discover in Sacrament the source of Christ's grace for living a fithful and fruitful love. Amen.

PRAYING WITH THE CHURCH
INTENTION
That Christian communities may welcome ever more completely the Lord's invitation to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world.
Elaboration

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