Beloved, if God so loved us, we also must love one another. No one has ever seen God. Yet, if we love one another, God remains in us, and his love is brought to perfection in us. (1 Jn 4:11-18)
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/010726.cfm
That God loves us is wonderful, but as the writer says, “No one has ever seen God.” The hard part is loving one another. The Epiphany message is that since God has been revealed in human flesh, as Emmanuel, God-With-Us, then we must love one another. And it is by loving one another God’s love is brought to perfection in us—it is not optional. https://youtu.be/dN_pFtCvIJQ?si=z3N4NIBvT--R58TR
These reflections are a result of more than 40 years of ministry as a Roman Catholic priest. Most of these years I spent in the Diocese of Charlotte which covers Western North Carolina. Now I am retired, and live in Medellín, Colombia where I continue to serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Medellín.
Wednesday after Epiphany, January 7
