We have seen his star go out and have come to worship him

We have seen his star go out and have come to worship him

Peace and Good

Dear reader, today I get to you, being now in the final stretch of the Nativity of God, the feast of tenderness and humility in the extreme, but also the feast of light. In many places today and next Sunday we will celebrate the feast of the Epiphany, the manifestation of God to all mankind, to celebrate it with dignity and thank God for the gift received both
Christmas glows with the light emanating from the newly born child. He is the Light! The sun is born from above! So on this glorious night turns dark as a full day and the entire world is manifested through the brilliance of the "Star of Bethlehem" seen from all corners of the universe and that as we read in the Gospel of Matthew 2 1-9, led the Wise Men (Magi) to seek Jesus who was just born and worship him. These wise men repeatedly asked: "Where is the King of the Jews that is born? We saw his star in the east and are come to worship him. "
We have seen and come: here is the free and great teaching these "missionary disciples" biblical. If we refer to the Wise Men tell us that the tradition is called Melchor, Gaspar and Balthazar. They have acted accordingly, have not brought any delay. They have not put any pretext and nothing above the call that God gives them to know you. If they had put to calculate miles away, problems, challenges, danger, uncertainty, insecurity, if they wanted to have control of everything, certainly not been put into road. Everything had come down and have attempted in vain and sterile intentions. They have acted immediately, so they become a perfect disciple, attend the call that God is doing to go to worship and acknowledge the fact Man in a portal. Act immediately and that is the secret when it receives a signal or inspiration of God. The true disciples discover the will of God and carried out. They had no certainty of what they were doing, but had faith. They thus become the first "children of Abraham according to faith" Abraham also, in effect, set off, "not knowing whither he went" (Hebrews 11.8), trusting only in the Word of God that invited to leave their land.
"The star they had seen in East preceded them until it stopped
the place where the child was. "

The light guide star is announcing the biggest revelation of the mystery of God who makes his dwelling among us. Without faith and without the guiding star, hardly the Wise Men who came from the East had reached the destination, without that guidance could hardly have found the right direction, without that star their lives would have been different. In the Magi are represented all mankind of all times and all places, races, languages, social, cultural, all peoples of the earth are represented in the Wise Men who were eager to set off not knowing or when or where your trip would be over.
Each and every one of us is called to a journey: the path leading from a dark and meaningless life to a life filled with the love and hope brought by Jesus who has saved us from our sins. To reach him you do not need a large luggage is more, the baggage in the way. You need to leave everything, dispossessed of everything, including ourselves to go to meet him. The important thing is trust, trust the heavenly sign that precedes us and know that the arrival will be rich in mercy. The significance of our road is the road itself. It's the way we can learn to trust the Lord. It is on the way we prove that our faith is stronger than our weariness and the temptation to surrender and stand before you arrive.
It is therefore a point of arrival, a fixed point: the star, after having led, from which it arises, the Magi from the east, from the far reaches of the earth, "stood." And the moment you stop giving an indication of the direction of the pedestrian path in search of God ends. It has been the goal.
However, the implementation of the journey not the end of human action pilgrim on earth, but his journey is a new direction. When it comes to discovering the truth, when the light is noticed, a new task has to be done: You need to become witnesses to the light! It is essential to be spokesmen for the truth to those who still do not know! "Abandon own works at night and put on the armor of light" (Rom 13:12).
"Going into the house they saw the child with Mary his mother and fell down and worshiped."
The Wise Men knew very well what "worship" proskynesis do, because the practice was born precisely with them in the courts of the East. It meant taxing the maximum possible honor, recognize an absolute sovereignty. The gesture was reserved for it only and exclusively to the sovereign. It is the first time that this verb is used in relation to Christ in the New Testament is the first implicit recognition of his divinity.
Wizards do not seek God out of curiosity, or to understand, or find an answer to your questions, or to relieve them in their sorrows and labors, much less to increase their knowledge. They set off in order to express their devotion and submission to God. Today, today, is also unique worship to God, worship, praise and bless the Virgin, but not worship. This is an honor that only you can render to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Worship is the most genuine and reverent gesture of the creature to his Creator.
We run the danger of using the word "worship" or "worship" with a lot of lightness, ie, the prostitute, for example: "I love to dance," "I love my dog", "I love my car, my house .... " Human creature say, "My adorable well." Of course, this is not a sin, but it does indicate much what place God in our lives and at the same time, the quality of our religious sensibilities.
The Wise Men worshiped the Child "at home" on the knees of the Mother and the care and contemplation of the father. Today we can worship him,-and never better, today we can also worship Him in the Eucharist, worship "in spirit and in truth," deep in the heart ... We are missing opportunities to do so, but brings us opportunities to live consistently under the gaze of God, worshiping Him in His presence forever.
Once you have found, that we have loved can not be the same again. We can not backtrack. We can not walk or walking the path taken. When he finds Christ is the Way, the Truth and the Life, and you can not go back down the same road. When we met with God, life changing, and changing the way life changes, management. The encounter with Christ is crucial and requires a change of life leave the old man and put the new man. It requires a change of habit. If this Christmas and the Feast of the Epiphany we have found Emmanuel-God-among-us, we can not return to the way we were before we met with him
May God grant us this grace and be brave enough and our faith and hope are so great that we can change the route every day to return to our world and daily lives.
"We saw his star and are come to worship the Lord."
Peace and Good
Happy and Holy Feast of the Manifestation of God to all mankind!
FW. TX, January 6, 2012.
With my prayers:
Capuchin Missionary Paul Fray.