MERRY CHRISTMAS 

Good evening everyone, I am so happy to welcome you all for today’s Holy Mass. Our special welcome to all our parishioners, visitors and everyone here today. Friends in Christ Jesus, let us thank God almighty for bringing us all here today to this beautiful Church of St. Joseph’s to celebrate the glorious birth of Christ our Lord. Let us thank him for sending his only son our Lord Jesus Christ to be with us forever. Let us thank him for showering upon us the gifts of the Holy Spirit each and every day. 

Our special welcome to all our visitors to the best church in town. Today we celebrate the biggest historical event that has ever taken place in human history. We are celebrating the unimaginable event that has even occurred in the universe. 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’s love surpasses everything. When His own chosen people whom He loved without any condition, went away from Him; when His own people faced with challenges and difficulties and when His own people began to worship false gods and rejected his mercy and compassion, love and kindness; yet, yet, god did not abandon them. 

He knew his people 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 and at last, as the highest expression of love, He sent his only Son Jesus Christ because of Him, we live, move and have our being today. 

Yes, God sent His only Son our Lord Jesus Christ. As he was born in Bethlehem, the wise men came to worship him saying, “He is the king of Kings and the lord of all” And at the age of twelve, as Christ Jesus was found at temple in Jerusalem surrounded by rabbis, holy men and women, he proclaimed the love and kindness of God. 

At the age of thirty, before his public ministry, the Holy Spirit once again descended on Him and there came a voice from heaven saying, “this is my beloved son with whom I am well pleased”. 

This mission of Christ is bringing people back to God almighty. By his preaching and teaching, by his miracles and wonders, Christ brought them all to onefold.  

Friends in Christ 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 receive the churches sacraments and we put our faith into practice, we celebrate Christ Jesus. 

Today what can we give it to Christ the giver of all that comes to us. What could be the best gift to Christ?  

Since everything that we see belongs to him and what can we possible give it to him? Let us give ourselves and thus join the angels and archangels and sing, ‘Glory to god in the highest”. Amen.