25/12/2021

The readings at this day's mass tell us everything we need to know why today is the day for rejoicing by all mankind. Glory is God's. He has visited his people and with a divine humility has taken on our flesh to become the perfect sacrifice to bear witness to Wonder, the Glory of being.

God is always past, present and future. God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Using only his own being and perfect freedom we were created but our father Adam lost the sinlessness that was ours at the Creation.The Goodness of God is so complete that the only atonement that could be effective had to come from God and so the Son by the power of the Holy Spirit became Man.

The writer of Hebrews knew that what he had witnessed in his homeland, in his lifetime, was an incredible manifestation of God's free gift of Love to mankind. John had also witnessed Jesus' mission and had accepted his own mission to care for God's Mother for the rest of her time on earth.  John knew that "what is God" had to be pondered, meditated upon. and so he wrote what is always the "Last Gospel" for me and previous generations.

                                                "In the beginning was the Word."

Dear Lord may I this Christmas day remain true to you and let my thoughts and awarenes of your Grace stay with me not only today but all the days of my life. May Mary add my prayers to hers to support my family and all my good intentions for them. Let Joseph too who is an exemplar of human fatherhood, saving the Baby by escaping as a refugee to Egypt add his prayers in support of the millions who are on the move around our world.