HOMILY FOR THE 2ND OF JANUARY
Homily for the 2nd of January Memorial of Sts. Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen (Bishops and Doctors of the Church). 1 John 2:22-28; John 1:19-28. St. John in the First Reading tells us what it takes to be the antichrist different from the idea of the antichrist we are used to. Anyone who denies the Father and the Son is the antichrist. We are not meant to look for an antichrist out there. We are created for God and any aspect of our ĺives that has not been illumined by the light of Christ is the antichrist. Since it is the source of sin and deception in our lives and our world. One of the things an antichrist will do is to claim to be the Christ so as to deceive people. John the Baptist in today's Gospel could have told the Jews that he is the Christ. But he said to them, "I am not the Christ" (John 1:20). He went further to tell them how insignificant he is before Christ, saying, "I baptise with water; but among you stands one whom you do not know, even he wh...