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Dear friends, brothers and sisters in Christ, today the Gospel of John invites us to contemplate a moment of profound revelation, an instant in which heaven opens and the mystery of God is revealed among us. Jesus walks among the crowd, hidden among the common people, as one of us. He does not impose himself with fanfare, he does not seek applause or recognition. He is there, humble and discreet, in the middle of the Jordan River, where John the Baptist is baptizing. But suddenly, John sees him and cannot remain silent: "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!" These words are not a simple greeting; they are a decisive testimony, a cry that tears the veil of the ordinary to reveal the divine. John the Baptist, the forerunner, plays a fundamental role in this narrative. He, who baptized with water to prepare the way, now points to Jesus and proclaims him as the one who "was before me." Here, dear friends, John reminds us that Jesus is not just any prophet: He is the Eternal One, the pre-existent Son of God, who existed before time, as faith teaches us. He is the suffering Servant announced by the prophet Isaiah (cf. Is 53), the one who takes upon himself the wounds of the world to heal them. And above all, he is the Paschal Lamb, symbol of the apocalyptic expectation of the Jewish people: not just any lamb, but the one who offers himself as a sacrifice to free us from sin, just as the lamb sacrificed at the Jewish Passover prefigured redemption.

Dear friends, brothers and sisters in Christ, today the Gospel invites us to contemplate the figure of John the Baptist, that prophet in the desert who emerges as a humble and powerful voice crying out in the wilderness, calling the people to conversion. In this Gospel, the priests and Levites, sent by the Jews of Jerusalem, approach him with insistent questions: "Who are you? Are you the Messiah? Are you Elijah? Are you the prophet?" John is not puffed up with pride, he does not appropriate titles that do not belong to him. On the contrary, he responds with disarming simplicity: "I am not the Christ... I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord!" In this response, dear friends, there is a profound lesson for each of us. John the Baptist is not the center of history; He is the forerunner, the one who prepares the way. His baptism is a baptism of conversion, a call to repentance, a gesture to straighten the crooked paths of our hearts. He is like a shepherd who gathers the lost sheep, calling them to a change of life, to a return to the Lord. But John knows well that his role is limited: "Among you stands one you do not know, the one who comes after me." He points to Christ, the true Shepherd who will baptize not only with water, but in the Holy Spirit, granting a spiritual regeneration, a rebirth of the soul that goes beyond simple remorse. It is the Spirit who transforms, who renews, who makes us new creatures, capable of living eternal life to the full.

Here we meet the elderly Simeon, a just and devout man, guided by the Holy Spirit. He takes the Child in his arms and speaks words that echo through the centuries: "My eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the presence of all peoples: a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel." At this moment, the Temple was crowded with the smell of incense and the murmur of prayers. Simeon, elderly and weary, had awaited Israel's consolation his entire life. And suddenly, in that fragile newborn, he recognized the Light. Not just any light, but the one that illuminates the entire cosmos. Here, Luke offers us a cosmic Christological perspective: Jesus is not only the Messiah awaited by the Jewish people, but the center of the created universe. Like the primordial light that God called into existence in the book of Genesis: "Let there be light!" Thus Jesus bursts into the world as the incarnate Word, who illuminates all things. Saint John will say it clearly: "In him was life, and the life was the light of men" (Jn 1:4). This light is not abstract or distant; it is cosmic because it embraces all creation, from the smallest atom to infinite galaxies, reconciling all things in Christ, as Saint Paul teaches us (Col 1:15-20). Jesus is the divine Logos who orders chaos, who dissolves the darkness of sin and ignorance, casting his radiance upon every creature.

Our teachings draw from the timeless wisdom of Scripture, mystical Christian traditions, and the revelation that true spirituality transcends religion, embracing the interconnectedness of all things in God’s infinite presence. Christocentric Love is a space for seekers to experience spiritual transformation, deepen their awareness of the divine within and without, and live from the heart of universal, unconditional love that Christ embodies, that is the consciousness that heals, unites, and elevates humanity into its fullest divine potential. Let’s return to the point where we can relearn our Christian values in the light of our cosmic experience of today