Happy New Year!! This week we celebrated the completion of our journey around a star, a heavenly body essential to our life on earth. That star is the sun, and it provides us with everything: oxygen, food, light and it holds our planet on course by its gravitational pull.
Today, we focus on another important star, The Star of Bethlehem, a key element in our celebration of Epiphany Sunday. This star led the Magi through the darkness and in a dark world, to find our divine king and savior. Like the sun, the Son of God gives us everything, our every breath, our spiritual food in today’s Mass, redemption of our souls, and His Holy Spirit, who works like a gravitational pull, to draw us in a heavenly direction.