On Christmas morning, and on weekdays throughout the Christmas season, the Church's liturgy invites us to delve deeply into the first chapter of the Gospel of John. John the Evangelist was an eyewitness of the events he describes. And since he was both the youngest and the longest-living of the Twelve Apostles, he had a whole lifetime to contemplate the significance of those events.A meditative reading of his words, a lectio divina of John 1, therefore,...