Commentary on the Gospel of
We have all been children and terrified on waking up in a dark room; our mother’s or father’s voice called our name and we knew peace again. As adults we are painfully aware that we live “in darkness and in the shadow of death, unable to light our own path; but we know enough about the light to recognize it when we see it. The newly-lighted Paschal Candle, held aloft at the beginning of the Easter Vigil mass: that expresses everything we know about being Christian.
