24/12/2025

Wednesday Advent Week 4 Christmas Eve

Today we complete the preparations that we make to welcome into this world the Incarnate Son of God.

There are millions of us throughout the world who are today engaged in a frenzy of human activity. Some of us will also raise our minds and hearts to God but it seems that for most of us "Jesus" is only a name from the past.

At the time of the Incarnation, 9 months prior to today, 2025 years ago, Mary asked "How can this be?" and I too have repeated that question many times during my lifetime as I witness the remorseless rise of Mammon and decline of Christ which has characterised my time on Earth.

God knows that this losing sight of His purpose in creation is not something that I observe only in others for I too sometimes have a struggle to complete the words of the Lord's Prayer, his "roadmap" to Holiness.

Very few people knew what was happening that night in Bethlehem and yet it was the beginning of the most important 33 years of human history.

IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT revealed his will to Mary through the message of an angel and to us through his birth, life, death and resurrection. Since those days he has never left us alone, but it is we who have to welcome him into our hearts and actively seek out and embrace his will for us.

Why would we refuse the Loving Fatherhood of God, a place in the New Holy Family as an adopted sibling of the Son of the Most High? 

Jesus dying words to Mary and John "Woman behold your son. Son behold your mother" complete his mission of salvation in this world the beginning of which we celebrate on this 

"Silent and Holy Night"

Dear Lord, help me to know love and serve as a created being by avoiding anything that is incompatible with your loving perfection and thus becoming the person you created me to be. Amen