CHRIST IS THE LIGHT OF THE COSMOS (Lk 2:22-35)
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.