“God has become Emmanuel God is with us”

Saturday (Night) 25^th December 2021

“God has become Emmanuel God is  with us”

(Isaiah 9:1-6); (Titus 2:11-14); (St. Luke 2:1-14)

Dear brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ, today we have come to  the long awaited moment of our intense festival of Christmas, as we assemble on this Christmas Day cheering together on the grounds that the Lord Jesus Christ, Our Savior has revealed upon us and He has satisfied God's guarantees for our salvation, our freedom from the specific annihilation and destruction because of our many sins. He has shown us His always generous love, empathy and benevolence, and God has never abandoned us. He even gave us generally His main generated Son, that through Him we might be saved and have everlasting life.

Today the world is suffering from confusion, fears, injustice, divisions, intolerance, terrorism, wars, misunderstandings, hatred, doubts and all sorts of exploitation. People everywhere are crying. “O! God, where are you, why have you forsaken us, why don’t you speak”?

The celebration of the joy and the light of the Christmas powerfully manifest the divine solidarity par excellence. God Himself has become “human one with us”. St. John writes, “In the beginning was the word, the word was made flesh and lived among us.” (St. John 1:14).

Christmas truly is the time of Divine light. It drives away all sadness and brokenness. Because God has become “Emmanuel” God with us, God is among us and God in us. Let us share this light with each other and lighten each one’s life. For God’s begotten son brings us true light.

Christmas is the time of giving birth, the Blessed Virgin Mary gives birth to God’s Son the savior of the world. From now on:

• we too are called to give birth to love, to acceptance of each other and forgiveness. 
• We are called to give birth to compassion for the needs of those who suffer. 
• We are called to give birth to pastoral care and education of the children. Children are the future of our society. 
• We are called to give birth to positive attitudes so that dignity of each one is safe guarded and solidarity may prosper.

Christmas is the time of friendship through the incarnation, God created us His sons and daughters. We belong to one family. Come! Let us rejoice and celebrate together the birth of our savior. Indeed true peace has come among us from heaven. Come! Let us walk to together with love and harmony, because the “Word has become Flesh and has made His dwelling among us.”

In faith and hope let us share our solidarity, especially with those who have been victimized by hatred and with those who are inn darkness, fear and in doubts. Let us remember that in our world of violence and sin God has become “Emmanuel” God with us. His law of love is the true foundation of His divine solidarity.

As Christians, we all are called to recollect our self-assurance and love for God. We are called to recall exactly the way in which adored our Lord. Also realizing that we are genuinely dearest by Him, then, at that point, it is just correct that we perceive that affection and endeavor to adore the Lord sincerely on the off chance that we have not done as such yet. In Christmas, we are commending this affection for God made clear and genuine, unmistakable and available through the Lord Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Savior. Hence, we all ought to mirror this in the manner we are commending the delight of Christmas.

It implies that we ought not wind up observing Christmas with incredible overabundances and fun, to fulfill our own cravings for joy and solace, for natural products and needs. All things being equal, our Christmas festivity and delight should come from the real craving we have in adoring God and in expressing gratitude toward Him for all that He has accomplished for us. We commend this Christmas since God has accomplished such a great deal for us, in broadening His adoration and benevolence towards us through Christ, His Son, Whom He had shipped off our middle to show us generally His affection.

Brothers and sisters in Christ, let every one of us share our Christmas euphoria and favors with each other, with our kindred brethren who need them the most. A considerable lot of our brethren out there are truth be told incapable to celebrate this Christmas in the way that a large number of us can do. Some are experiencing in any event, staying dedicated, in those areas of the planet where being Christians might mean specific torment and passing. Not just that they need to observe Christmas covertly, however they should likewise rehearse their confidence stealthily or, in all likelihood gambling mistreatment and demise. What's more numerous others actually are enduring and in troublesome times, particularly as we probably are aware the way that these beyond two years had been hard for so many of us.

Many people had lost their friends and family or are as yet experiencing the impacts of the current pandemic. This Christmas should be a motivation to us all, particularly assuming we have gotten more satisfaction and gifts than others, for us to liberally impart those euphoria and favors to the people who have pretty much nothing or not even one of them. Let us generally not choose to disregard and a hard of hearing ear to their predicament and need, siblings and sisters in Christ.

Allow every one of us to share the genuine delight of Christmas that is the delight in the Light and Hope that Christ our Lord and Savior had brought into our middle, in His approaching into the world that we all currently have the confirmation of everlasting life and genuine joy with Him. Allow us to be the conveyors of this delight, this Hope and Light that we have gotten from Him, and help other people who are enduring, troubled and are in troublesome minutes, to have the option to see the Light and the Hope of God's salvation, through our self-confidence and activities.

“May you experience the joy and peace of Christmas? May you be warmed in the light of Christ so you will carry the peace of Christ to our world?”