Strangely enough, the year ends with a Gospel that for john’s Gospel describes Christian origins - “In the beginning was the Word - And then goes on to show how God is presenting many ways till the decisive intervention when God comes among us as God’s Son in Jesus. Before Vatican 2, these texts - the Prologue to John’s Gospel- was the last thing read by the priest before he left the altar and the congregation dispersed. In this context -the end of a year - it shows the binning of everything in God.