25/12/2025

God knows that the words of this morning's liturgy although composed by man have the beauty and power that is the pure, loving truth with which IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT knows his own being thus loving us also into being and forgiving us for all our sins.

He knows that every "iam" is totally miniscule but has created each of his human beings to be "IMAGEANDLIKENESS", as another person to respond in created time to his WORD which is recorded in the Old Testament and today is celebrated as the beginning of the New and Final Revelation that enables us to do his will on Earth, in our time, as it is done in His timeless, Eternity.

The writer of today's second reading has had some time in which to "ponder within his heart" the events that his generation has witnessed and knows that Moses and the prophets had received and proclaimed the WORD but he and his generation had been engraced by the living presence of the same WORD, Incarnate Son and that many of them had witnessed  real-time events that have been the historical reality of "True man and True God" on Earth.

When John came to write his personal memories that are still with him at the the conclusion of his long life he has to begin at the source of Reality and then recalls the real-time teaching of the WORD leading up to the Saving Event on Calvary.

Mary was the only other one present at both the temporal beginning and end of Jesus' life. John had accepted Jesus' commission and had taken her into his home but he does not elaborate on this. We 2,000 years later, do, however, have more than enough information about the sinful failures of the Institutional Church based on Peter but also know that Jesus promises to be with us even to the end of time we thus have to reconcile the perceived failures of history with the reality promised by the WORD.

Everyday that I raise my heart and mind to God I am aware of Calvary and of the words spoken by Jesus to Mary and John and accept these as the foundation of the  Church of Love that is the presence of Christ that can be found  even in the midst of the worldly entanglements that have confused rather than enlightened so many of the faithful who have been scandalised by  the Institutional Church.

More than ever, however, today is the day when we should remember  persons loved by God rather than try to interpret events created by human failure. The very nature of a baby is to inspire tenderness. Mary is such a young girl to bear  responsibility for a new life and Joseph is kindness and humility personified. The stable is filled with the sight, sound and smells of creation and we with the shepherds can only bow our heads and worship in awed silence for "unto us a CHILD is born" Amen