O Dayspring, Brightness of Light Everlasting and Sun of Righteousness: come and enlighten him that sitteth in darkness and in the shadow of death.
Before light can shine there has to be a source. When a mass of gases collapses under gravity, the intense heat causes a nuclear reaction to ignite and a star is born. Light is the first matter of Creation - a product of the Wisdom of God. Light is the first thing that is not God but rather reflects His being. Further, in order for Darkness to exist, there has to be somewhere for light to be absent, something upon which light is not shining.
In separating Light from Darkness, God is creating things that emit and things that absorb light. All this is determined in the beginning.
As our modern science observes Light itself in ever finer detail and sees individual quanta of light and their counterintuitive effects, so the mathematical reality of our universe is revealed to be elegant and beautiful. Mathematics sheds light on science, making sense of our observations and enabling predictions.
And yet, that a non-material mathematics might reveal the intricacies of a material universe is itself a marvellous wonder. Our universe becomes a reality of the material mixed with the non-material - aspects of reality invisible to the physical sciences. In denying the uncreated light, materialist minds are in a primordial darkness and will remain there until their eyes are opened to the Truth. Just as a few first century Jews have the Light shine upon the words of the Old Testament to reveal Salvation, so the first century Gentiles have the Light shine upon their philosophies to reveal Christ there. And forth these folk go to shine light and proclaim the message.
This is the message of the Church: sleepers wake and the light of Christ will shine on you!
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