Daily Signet

Why so much joy in light? Because it reveals what I did not see before and it unveils a mystery that expounds into a greater mystery, only now veiled in light. In the “ah-ha” of the creation, the light magnifies what the darkness can no longer hide—beauty to behold but not to be understood, beauty at which to marvel but not to grasp. An expounded-upon mystery, revealed in light to be a greater mystery than the mystery hidden in the dark.  St. John says of the Christ, “All things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men.”  This Word, this Son of God, this ever-present, eternal light of human imagination and creation, infuses the creation. And in this, Light—the joy of life.

Benjamin Martin

On This Day…

Osip Mandelstam born 1891 in Warsaw: poet, essayist. Works: Stalin Epigram, The Noise of Time, Journey to America. Died in a Russian gulag, 1938.  Quotes: “My turn shall also come, I sense the spreading of a wing.” “Only in Russia is poetry respected – it gets people killed.” “Everything is moved by love.”