Light from Light

200 words: Radiance that Refutes Lies

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Jesus asked the disciples, ‘Who do people say that I am?’ (Matthew 16). We are asked the same question by Jesus.

What is our answer?

Pope Leo XIV answers without hesitation, without duplicity. He relies on our rich spiritual tradition.

The Nicene Creed is 1,700 years old this year. It answered a controversy created by a priest called Arius, who did not believe that Jesus was truly God.

Some 318 bishops gathered at Nicea (Iznik) in 325:

They affirmed that God is One – Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In this they simply affirmed the baptismal formula given to us by Jesus.

Furthermore, Jesus is truly the Son of God, not just a mere man, rejecting the lie of Arius. The Nicene Creed proclaims:

God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God.

Pope Leo comments:

The Council of Nicea hereby adopted the biblical metaphor of light: God is light (1 John 1). Just as light radiates and communicates itself without diminishing, so the Son is the reflection of God’s glory and the imprint (character) of his being (In Unitate Fidei, 6).

Baptised into Light, we are to be light to the world (Matthew 5).

AMEN.