In the Benedictus, the sometimes, inexpressibly beautiful Morning Song of Christianity, Zechariah, mute for a substantial amount of time, bursts into words after hear God's Message from the Archangel Gabriel. In the hymn, Holy Mother Church sings with Zechariah about, his son, John the Baptist, and the great announcement of salvation to the many through the forgiveness of their sins. More poignantly, however, the Church is reminded and renewed in, through, and with "The dawn from on high", Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Another noteworthy event, or saying in the Canticle of Zechariah, taken from the opening chapters of Luke's Gospel, is the sentence, "He (God) promised to free us from our enemies." So, so more often that not, dear friends, those enemies are in the interior life of ourselves, rather than in other people or objects around us. God promised us interior freedom; the freedom and opportunity to cleanse ourselves, with the help of His grace, from those things that each human has inside himself or herself that blocks that particular person from a fruitful relationship with God.
Another noteworthy event, or saying in the Canticle of Zechariah, taken from the opening chapters of Luke's Gospel, is the sentence, "He (God) promised to free us from our enemies." So, so more often that not, dear friends, those enemies are in the interior life of ourselves, rather than in other people or objects around us. God promised us interior freedom; the freedom and opportunity to cleanse ourselves, with the help of His grace, from those things that each human has inside himself or herself that blocks that particular person from a fruitful relationship with God.
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