Seek And You Shall Find
The Epiphany of the Lord
“Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.”Ps. 72
After being expelled from paradise, humanity was afflicted by sickness, death, and tendencies toward sin, inherent to our condition. This brought spiritual blindness or darkness, as we are born with zero knowledge and acquire only fragments of understanding throughout life fragments that amount to less than 0.1% of what is knowable. This limitation prompts the divisions, disagreements, arguments, and frustrations that every human being inevitably faces in this world.
Truth is found only by those who seek it. We must seek in order to find, for those who do not seek are led by erroneous ideas, prejudices, or knowledge shaped by a partial and biased view of reality. Such individuals are often guided by personal interests, whims, and desires rather than by the truth as it is. This principle applies both to the temporal realities of this world and to the spiritual and eternal truths, which only become known to those who actively search for them.
We now live in a pagan world that has chosen darkness over light (John 3:19) turning its back on God and truth. Not only does it fail to seek the truth, but it despises, hates, and tramples on it, deliberately opposing it. Consider ideologies that contradict science and even common sense, such as the belief that one can change gender, that dozens of genders exist to choose from, that it is valid for men to compete against women, or that communism is good, despite being an ideology responsible for more than 100 million deaths, etc. These beliefs defy evidence and truth.
If such obvious and self-evident realities are denied, how much more easily is God denied under the pretext of His invisibility-even though His existence is as self-evident, if not more so, than the mentioned realities. Creation itself proclaims the evidence of the Creator (Rom 1,19s). Any honest scientist must acknowledge this, as does the common sense of any reasonable person who understands that nothing can arise from nothing, that creation cannot exist without a Creator, and that nothing begins without an initiator.
God revealed Himself in Bethlehem (“House of Bread”), born in a manger (a place for food, and was recognized by those who sought the truth-then as now. These seekers discerned His presence through the Scriptures, where every detail had been prophesied, and through signs in the heavens, which even pagans from distant lands followed to find Him, recognize Him, bow down, and worship the mystery of God incarnate.
He came to His own people, prepared and formed for Him, but many did not receive Him (John 1,11). To receive Him and recognize Him requires the desire to do so, which leads to seeking and finding. Those who receive Him discover the great treasure of divine and eternal life. They become children of God, living as citizens of heaven, clothed in Christ, and shining as lights amidst darkness—guiding others toward Him so they too may find Him.
“You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart and all your soul”Deuteronomy 4:29; Jeremiah 29:13
Weekly Readings
Sunday: Is 60:1-6/Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-11, 12-13 (see 11)/Eph 3:2-3a, 5-6/Mt 2:1-12
Monday: 1 Jn 3:22- 4:6/Ps 2:7bc-8, 10-12a/Mt 4:12-17, 23-25
Tuesday: 1 Jn 4:7-10/Ps 72:1-2, 3-4, 7-8/Mk 6:34-44
Wednesday: 1 Jn 4:11-18/Ps 72:1-2, 10, 12-13/Mk 6:45-52
Thursday: 1 Jn 4:19—5:4/Ps72:1-2, 14 and 15bc, 17/Lk 4:14-22a
Friday: 1 Jn 5:5-13/Ps 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20/Lk 5:12-16
Saturday: 1 Jn 5:14-21/Ps 149:1-2, 3-4, 5 and 6a and 9b/Jn 3:22-30
Next Sunday: Is 40:1-5, 9-11/Ps 104:1b-2, 3-4, 24-25, 27-28, 29-30 (1)/Ti 2:11-14; 3:4-7/Lk 3:15-16, 21-2
Observances for the Week
Sunday: The Epiphany of the Lord
Monday: St. André Bessette, Religious
Tuesday: St. Raymond of Penyafort, Priest
Next Sunday: The Baptism of the Lord
