Message from Fr. Brito:

Epiphany of the Lord

     Many People today say they prefer science to faith and don’t think it possible for a person to have both. They wrongly think that they are contrary to one another.

     The three kings also believed in science, but also had faith in the supernatural. The three wise men studied nature and were true scientists. In observing the stars in the night sky, the three of them noticed something out of the ordinary. It was the star of Christ. For the Magi, there was no contradiction between faith and science. This was also the message of the holy father. Pope Benedict XVI: “Science can help us learn more about faith. Faith in God will prevent us from using science to do evil”. They go hand in hand.

Thirty-some years after visit from the Magi, Jesus asks his disciples, “who people say I am?, he then asked them: "Who do you say that I am?" But before he ever asked this question, the three Wise Men inspired by God, will tell us who Jesus is with the three gifts that they present to him.

    First the golden gift is presented. This gift tells us that the child is a king. He is the king of kings.

The second gift is incense. This indicates that the child is divine. this child is God.

The final gift is myrrh. This last gift stops the heart. Myrrh was used to anoint the bodies of the dead. this last gift, says that this child is true human who will one day lay down his life and die.

Bishop Fulton Sheen said: “Jesus was revealed to two groups of people, the Shepherds and the Magi; those who knew nothing and those who knew that did not know everything.”

In other words he reveals himself to the humble.

      Again, who is Jesus? He is our God, and our King but he is also our brother, who humbled himself in order to raise us up. Amen.