Last week, on the Third Sunday in this Ordinary Time, the Reading from Isaiah spoke of degraded lands, anguish, gloom, a yoke that burdens shoulders, division, rivalry... Isaiah prophesied to the long-oppressed people of Israel that light ~ a great light ~ would come to save them. He describes in vivid imagery what would come when the Lord would be glorified. Anguish flies away, darkness is dispelled, gloom and distress will flee when this light has shone. The light brings ab