I see that the Archbishop of Monterrey in Mexico has restored the “Last Gospel” to the celebration of all Masses in the coming year, citing it as a perfect synthesis the Apostolic Faith. It’s a brave and timely decision in a “post-truth” age.
We read the Prologue to St John’s Gospel many times over the Christmas season. “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God...” The noun St Jerome translates as “Word” has many meanings in Greek. To say that Jesus is the Word through whom everything was made is to assert that there is a divine ordering at the centre of reality, that the universe is actually the product of a careful and loving plan and that God, by revealing his Word as the true light, reveals that Man also is hardwired to find the truth about God and the truth that God has patterned into creation. The once distant God has revealed himself in a form which allows man to interact in a way that accords with human nature by revealed His fulness in Jesus of Nazareth.
