What’s Christmas all About?
Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
Merry Christmas!
But what is Christmas all about?
The very first lines of the Catechism of the Catholic Church answer that question:
“God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life… He calls together all [people], scattered and divided by sin, into the unity of his family, the Church.
To accomplish this, when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son as Redeemer and Savior. In his Son and through him, he invites [mankind] to become, in the Holy Spirit, his adopted children and thus heirs of his blessed life.”
(Catechism, paragraph 1)
Christmas reveals that despite the rebellion against God by our “first parents” and our enslavement to the reign of sin and death that ensued, God, in his immense love, came to rescue us from the kingdom of darkness and transfer us to the Kingdom of his Beloved Son.
By cloaking His divinity in humanity, the Incarnate Word destroyed the Devil’s primary weapon, death, from the inside out, thus restoring mankind’s hope of sharing in the very life of God.
Sound too good to be true? Despite our sins, God came to seek your heart and my heart. He came to save you and me so that we might have a share in the very life of God – his joy, his glory and his peace. That is what Christmas is all about.
If we really understand the true meaning of Christmas, how can our lives be anything but a grateful response to God’s rescue mission that he launched, through Jesus?
Have a blessed Christmas season!
Sincerely yours in Christ Jesus, the Way, the Truth and the Life,
