MERRY CHRISTMAS

MERRY CHRISTMAS... 

Merry Christmas and Good evening every one. I am so happy to welcome you all for today's Christmas eve celebration. 

Today we celebrate the biggest event that has ever happened in human history, the unimaginable event. Yes, God the Creator, the Source of our very being became human and willingly accepted to live among us like you and me. Today's celebration of the glorious event of the birth of Christ the Only Son of God tells us that God never abandons His people and He will not leave us orphaned. 

God is love surpasses everything. When His own chosen people whom He loved without condition, went away from Him, when His own people faced with pain and difficulties; when His own people began to worship false gods such as money, power and pleasure and rejected His mercy and compassion; love and kindness, yet God the Father did not abandon them. 

He knew His children and He knew that they were weak and fragile and He knew that they would come back to Him. And in order to bring them back to Him, He sent His kings, prophets, Holy men and women to them and at last, as the expression of His unconditional love, God sent His Only Son Jesus Christ our Lord through whom everything came into existence and for whom alone, everything was created. 

Yes, God sent His Son the Redeemer Jesus our Lord. Jesus was born poor in Bethlehem and lived with poor. And at the age of twelve, He manifested His divine love at the temple in Jerusalem telling all the teachers, wise men and to the Pharisees and Scribes that God loves every one and every one belongs to Him. At the age of thirty, while He was baptized, the heavens opened, and there came out the divine voice saying, "This is my beloved Son with whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him alone". 

Christ our Lord went everywhere with His chosen apostles preaching the good news doing miracles and wonders. Jesus our Lord over and over again says that anyone who follows Him will have life everlasting.  

Dear friends in child Jesus, every time we celebrate the miraculous birth of Christ, we celebrate our birth, we celebrate our joy and happiness. Yes, every time we come to Church, we celebrate His glorious birth and every time we receive any of the church's sacraments, we celebrate His life and every time we come here, we begin to reflect His love and kindness. We become the God we worship. Today, what is our gift to child Jesus? Since everything that we see and have belong to him and what can we possibly give Him?  

We can give ourselves. Yes, let us give ourselves to Him and join the angels and the shepherds and sing, "Glory to God in the highest and peace to His people on earth". Amen.