21/12/2023

We are getting ever closer to the day we commemorate as the Day when Father, Son and Holy Spirit first drew breath in the Person of Son. In the Creed, the condensed summary of the foundations of the Holy Life that God has created us to live, we declare "begotten not made". The human being of Jesus is exactly the same as ours. He is body, mind and soul.

The baby that Mary feeds is not taking part in some sort of Divine Cosplay which he can abandon and go home when he feels like it. He is the creator of everything that any human being has known, can know now and will ever know for he is God at the breast of his mother Mary.

Jesus is not playing a part in an allegorical drama. Our Universe is not a vast theme-park for God, his angels and his Saints to enjoy from Heaven. Father, Son and Holy Spirit is not another humanoid god on Mt.Olympus. Jesus is a part of human history. He was born, he did live and he did die in the same material universe that we live in today. 

We are all human beings; in the body we are begotten by fathers and carried by mothers but our souls are created by Our Father. We do share the Sonship of Jesus. He taught us to pray with him "Our Father". A common father means that we are all brothers and sisters. He similarly gave us a common human mother at the foot of the cross.

We will all celebrate something at this "party season", this season of "Goodwill to all men" but most of us prefer to ignore the Great Blessing that Our Incarnate Father gave to all mankind during the Empire of Augustus and Tiberius two thousand years ago. Jesus is the most important fact of History.

Dear Lord, help me match my deeds to these my first thoughts throughout today. Help me to sincerely seek to do your will. May Mary whose "time" this season always will be remembered as plead for us unholy souls on earth and for the Holy Souls of Purgatory that we truly understand the impact our sins have so that we can begin to understand perfect Love and Beauty and Peace God has created us to  share in the timelessness of his Eternity.