The Mystery of a Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas! The God-child is born unto us: a new morning dawning on our lives, higher than our thoughts and deeper than our desires. Shining in our darkness and resounding in our silence the Word has become flesh – and death cannot overcome Him. There is a Holy Fire in the night, a radiant Star whose hope filled rays illumine an inestimable mystery entrusted to us, a mystery beyond all telling, a wonder far beyond our ability to imagine or understand. A fulfillment of all desires surpassing every promise, an overwhelming rush of divine tenderness, an enveloping comfort which surpasses the sorrow of our our afflictions, and a more than hoped for answer to life’s most painful questions: all of this is as present and as accessible in this present moment as a newborn wrapped in swaddling clothes. Christ dwells with us now as then proclaimed by angels, despised by the powerful, sought by the wise, and adored by the poor.
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