FRIDAY 1st JANUARY 2021
Luke 2, 16-21:
“When the eight days were completed for the circumcision of the child, they named him Jesus, just as the angel had named him before his conception.”
In Jesus’ time the name shaped the person and the person was meant in the name.
The name of Jesus means Saviour.
And in the circumcised child today it is not only the name by which he will be called, but that name will also express the reality and the mission that that child will have entrusted to him by the Father.
Jesus is the Saviour of the world.
At the beginning of a New Year we put ourselves within reach of his salvation.
May all the grace that the Father poured out on Jesus reach all people in this Year that we are now beginning.
May the saving blessing that we read about today in the first reading of the Eucharist become a reality in all of us: “May the Lord bless and protect you, may he shine upon you and grant you his favour. May the Lord show you his face and grant you peace”.
Let us all greet this year 2021 with these wishes of salvation and peace expressed by these beautiful words from the book of Numbers.
I wish them to become true in you throughout all the days of the Year that we are opening.
Happy 2021!
Antonio Sanjuán Marín, cmf
