Merry Christmas
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Feliz Navidad!
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Anno Domini 2024
He Came
Our Savior has come into the world. He came as a little child to experience helplessness and fragility like us.
“Break out together in song, O ruins of Jerusalem! For the LORD has comforted his people, has redeemed Jerusalem."(cf. Is 52: 9). Jerusalem of my heart, rejoice, for our God has come, our Savior, who redeemed us from our “Egypt”, the house of bondage. Rejoice, for the true light has shone, which shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it (cf. John 1: 5). He humbled himself (see Phil 2: 8), He, the God through whom and for whom all things were made, and without him nothing came to be, what came to be (cf. John 1: 3), became man and He came into the world to share everyday life with us, to be with us in all circumstances of life, to stay with us in the darkness and to give us life, to illuminate the darkness of life with his light, to enable our heart to love. He came that "everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life" (Jn 3:16).
He came to reveal the truth about his Father (cf. John 1:18), who is through Him our Father. A tender, loving, gentle Father, longing for your love above all else, giving us freedom of choice and always reaching out to us in his love and mercy, patient in waiting for our response to His love (cf. John 15: 11-32). He came who is the reflection of the glory and essence of our Father who is in heaven (cf. Heb 1: 3).
He came to console our heart, fill us with peace and joy. It is not necessarily a laughing joy, sometimes it is a difficult joy, in the midst of pain, but it is a real joy. The joy of being a child of God, of being a child loved and desired by God Himself. The joy that comes from the sense of meaning in our life, because He gives it value by loving us, and a love that has no beginning or end, which exceeds all our human ideas about its greatness and limitlessness.
Our Savior has come into the world. He came as a little child to experience helplessness and fragility like us. To experience the process of growth and development as we are. To be with us in our everyday life and share our fate with us. He came to give himself to us, to put himself in our hands. Will we welcome Him into the home of our heart? Will we cover Him with care and tenderness? Will we let Him give us His love? Will we believe His Word? Will we let God's Word be born in us, put into action by our hands? Our Savior, our God, has come into the world to embrace us by His love. And He asks us today: do you love me?
Holidays of the Nativity of Jesus are incredibly joyful, and this joy has a very deep justification, because Christ touches our problem at the very root: where we are sinners, where we would feel that God does not even belong there, He wants to be there in this our world, he transforms our manger into a temple in the place of his presence. I wish you this very much: this is the best good news of Christmas!
fr. george