The Christmas Mystery and Masses
The Christmas mystery is about the incarnation of the Word made flesh, the Light sent into the darkness, the God who empties himself and becomes a man – so that, as the ancient Fathers taught, men might become as gods. All the dimensions of the cosmos and the human heart are caught up in this mystery. What is temporal is infused with eternal, and the fecundity of the supernatural order obedient to love and truth manifests the glory of God in the futility of the natural world subject to sin and death. A celebration of such proportions has required the Church to develop different liturgies on Christmas Day so that the faithful can begin to trace the outlines of this inexhaustible mystery.
Merry Christmas!
Thank you for explaining about the readings. I was delighted a few years ago to find that there were different readings at each and it was in a little way like journeying along towards Bethlehem within our very own Church! I like the way you have described it here…