If you are here at the ACE blog you must have been through the Christ Church site and have seen this weeks quiz. The answers are E and A.


This week’s Gospel reading is John 1:1-18, which is commonly known as the prologue of John. This brief passage reveals the divine nature of Jesus and shows him to be as God incarnate in a term – logos -- which resonated both with the philosophy of the Greeks and the revealed Scripture of the Hebrews. That God revealed in Jesus is the reason, framework, meaning, aim and purpose of the Cosmos was a mystery deep in meaning for the early Christians and is for us today as well.

Christianity is a religion of reason and mystery. One implication of this passage is that reason is no enemy of faith. Rather, reason is a gateway to understanding God and reason properly used is a way of honoring God and of God working in our own lives.

That the life of Jesus reveals the underlying principle of Creation is truly a mystery, an inexhaustible mystery. That love is the inception, plan, purpose, and ordering principle and vehicle of all that was, is and will become is beauty: the beauty I pray my eyes, ears and heart will ever be open to and I pray for the grace for this joyful mystery to ever be on my lips.



1) The Greek root word logos ─ as in biology, geology, psychology, etc.─ means :

A) Reason
B) Logic
C) Underlying Principle
D) Word
E) All of the above

2) The Prologue of John’s Gospel closely mirrors the beginning of which book of the Bible?

A) Genesis
B) Matthew
C) Mark
D) Revelation