Solemnity of Christmas Day Year
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First Reading
Isaiah 52:7-10
Second Reading
Hebrews 1:1-6
Gospel
John 1:1-18
THEME: WHAT IS CHRISTMAS FOR YOU?
Many people have different ideas
of Christmas. Ethnic groups may have different views, ages or epochs may have
different views and nature may also have different views. In all these,
individually, we have different views. Now, let us ask ourselves what Christmas
is for us.
The first reading is taking
Christmas as a time of bringing good tidings or good news to the people.
Blessed are the feet of those who bring good news to the people of God. What
message do you carry during Christmas?
The second reading is talking
about the son of God whom God is well pleased with. Through Jesus Christ, we
are all adopted children of God. The question now is, is God well pleased with
us? Can he proudly call us his children? With what we do during this Christmas
season, can God beat his chest and call us his children? Continue Reading..............
In the gospel, John is describing
to us the nature of the man who has come to us today. The man born for us today
is God from the first verse of the gospel and in the fourteenth verse it took
flesh and dwelt among us. We are now living with the word which is God. Now, do
we live our lives like those living with God especially in this season of
Christmas when we remember his first coming?
Like I initially said, Christmas
means many things to many people. The Muslims do not regard Christmas as a
worthy celebration, same with the Jehovah Witness church, but whether they
recognize it or not, they know that a big celebration is taking place and it
affects them also. Christmas is meaningless for them. Parents or the old may
take it as a period of excessive spending without gaining much. Children may
see it as a period of merriment, when new cloths will be bought for them and
other Christmas things. Hustlers may see it as a time to make excessive gain.
Robbers may see it as a time to harmer. Drunkards may see it as a time of free
drinks. The church sees it as the beginning of our salvation in a human flesh
and so on.
Different views of people
contribute more to what they do in Christmas season. When a Muslim or a Jehovah
Witness sees you preparing for Christmas, the person will take you as a stupid
person and if you mistakenly hurt the person in the process, you are gone. That
will be their attitude in this season. When parents see it as a time of
excessive spending, they will do anything possible to make much money even to
the extent of swindling people, likewise hustlers. They may even go extra mile
of involving themselves in a ritualistic act. If children see it as a time of
new things which they know they cannot afford, they will become obedient to
their parents so that stories will not be told. If the church sees it as a salvation
history, she will do anything possible to see that they save souls of people of
God in this season and we can see the manifestation in the Christmas
confession. Again, church brought out four weeks for us to prepare ourselves
for it to make sure that our souls are saved. They preach joyful Christmas
throughout the four weeks by telling us how to prepare for the Christmas. Love
and charity should be our watch word this Christmas to get the full meaning of
Christmas. THANKS AND HAPPY CHRISTMAS.
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