LIGHT-BEARER

A strange insight that as we processed with lighted candles into the church earlier for the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple, I recalled that the name "lucifer," too, means "light-bearer."

As Christians we are called to be bearers not just of any "light" but ONLY the light of Christ.

To carry within us and to spread light other than that which comes from God is to be just another lucifer.

(Templon epistyle: Annunciation, Nativity and Presentation at the Temple, 

Monastery of St. Catherine, Sinai, second half of the 12th c.)