Dear Friends in Christ,

Everything that exists has come forth from God and belongs to God. If there is a question about the relation of things to God, it is because of human freedom. God wants to reign in our hearts. He wants us to be at one with Him in His vision of the meaning of our life, but He cannot force us to follow Him.

Jesus taught us to pray in the “Our Father” for God’s Kingdom to come, for God’s will to be done. The two phrases are inseparable. The way that we can contribute to the coming of God’s Kingdom is primarily by freely choosing to do God’s will. What this will is has been revealed in the teaching and the example of Jesus.

Today’s feast celebrates the unique role that Jesus Christ, the Word of God incarnate, plays in creation and in our history. In Him all things hold together. He represents the ideal, the vision of human life that God had in creating us. To imitate Jesus and to live the values that He stood for is to hasten the coming of God’s Kingdom. It is also to guarantee that we will share that Kingdom for all eternity with the risen Christ.

Peace,

Father Slawomir