" St John says in the Gospel that: “In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.... The true light that enlightens every man was coming into the world” (1:4-5, 9). Men speak much of light, but they often prefer the deceptive tranquility of darkness. We speak a lot about peace, but we often turn to war or choose the complicity of silence, or to do nothing concrete to build peace. In fact St John says that “He came to his own home, and his own people received him not” (Jn 1:11); for “this is the judgment, that the light — Jesus — has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed” (Jn 3:19-20). This is what St John says in the Gospel. The heart of man may reject the light and prefer the shadows, because light lays bare his evil deeds. Those who do evil hate light. Those who do evil hate peace." Pope Francis

As we celebrate the Feast of St. John the Apostle, the above quote gives us time to pause and reflect. To what extent in our lives do we love the darkness rather than the light? Every time we sin seriously, we reject the light of grace and choose the darkness of evil. Once we repent and reject sin, we allow the light of grace to once more overcome the darkness of alienation. The more we live in the light of Christ, the less will the darkness of sin overcome us. Then there are times we live in the light of dusk, which means we toil with sin, rather than live in the dawn of the new light, where sin will  have no control over us.  Live in the light and live in the glory of God now and forever.