Merry Christmas!

I love providing commentary with the help of the Holy Spirit, but sometimes it’s necessary to just let the word stand on it’s own.  And considering all of the confusion of the holiday season (to include the origins of the Christmas holiday), I think it’s safe to say that this is one of those times.

God bless this day, universally recognized as the day set aside to recognize the birth of Jesus.

            Merry Christmas everyone! 

 

            “She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”  

            And all this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet:  “The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel –which means, ‘God with us.” (Mt 1:21-23)

            In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was with God in the beginning.

            Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.  In him was life, and that life was the light of men.  The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.

            He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.  He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.  Yet to all who receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God – children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God. (Jn 1:1-5, 10-13)