Light a candle; Lift a Life unto God

Light a candle; Lift a Life unto God

Do not curse the darkness, it is better to light a candle.  Perhaps it is the light that God created that allowed man to know that through the darkness God would send his Light of the World we call Christ.  

In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless wasteland.  (Gn 1: 1 - 2).  Then God said, “let there be light,”  and there was light. God saw how good the light was.  (Gn 1: 3 - 4).  

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word  was God.  He was in the beginning with God.  All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be.  What came to be through him was life,  and this life was the light of the human race; the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.  (Jn 1: 1 - 5).  

One word from God and there was Light.  One man who IS God is the Light that IS,  and has overcome the evil of darkness.  A quick sentence of theology that existed before time and now calls us to accept this Light.  

In times of fear from a darkened world where light no longer shines because the wind of sin blows like a monster that corrupts faith.   Sin is the darkness of disbelief and is covering the grace that our faith once accepted from the love of God. 

A question that many do not ask anymore; where is the Light of God that an evil consensus now rules the souls of too many children of Christ, who died to bring the Light back into view?  

It certainly should concern all of us since we shall fall very quickly when we attempt to find our way to Christ without that Light of his grace. 

During the entrance procession at the Easter Vigil Mass, the deacon carrying the Paschal Candle sings with a deep and endearing voice, “Christ our Light” and the people answer with “Thanks be to God.”   This is the most adhering premise that calls our attention to the very words in the creation where God says, “Let there be Light.”   We follow that truth when in the prologue to John’s Gospel we read,  “What came to be through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race.”  

Light the candles on the altar so we can begin the Holy Mass; the assurance that we shall have the presence of Christ among his people before, during, and at the doxology of the Consecration that the Spirit of Christ is with us and the candles symbolize his divinity.

Light a candle and know that we have a Trinitarian presence of our God, Jesus Christ, our Savior, our friend, our Light into an eternal presence with the Son of God.  

Ralph B. Hathaway