CHRISTMAS DAY REFLECTION           

            On Christmas day every year we celebrate the extraordinary event of the son of God who came to dwell in our midst as our true brother and companion  in our life long journey to our final dwelling with God in heaven.

            Celebrating Christmas  is not only a joyful memorial of his birth centuries in the past or a mere repetition of an event of our Christian history worthy of commemoration  because marks the beginning of a new era in the history of mankind.

            Christmas is for us Christians a saving event of our today's life, which brings about hope in a new world as a result of a divine intervention  of God himself by sending his son Jesus "Who, being in the form of God, did not count equality with God something to be grasped. But he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming as human beings are"(Phil. 2,6-7).

            So how can we celebrate this year our Christmas in a way that will make the presence of our Saviour once again felt by all of us and able to bring about the saving effects  of which "in various times and in various different ways God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets  but in our time, the final days, he has spoken to us in the person of his Son...(Heb. 1,2) ?

            When Jesus was about to return to his father,  promised us his disciples that "He will be always with us, until the end of times (Mt. 28,20)" to help us implement his last command "go and make disciples  of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit"(Mt. 28,19).

"The Word was made flesh and lived among us"

            Once again Christmas this year is a new birth of Jesus in this world to continue his mission as the saviour of God's people by his powerful presence though not visible to our eyes but always active and productive in the events of this world to ensure our salvation from all evil.

            We Christians have the responsibility of bringing about this everlasting presence  of the Risen Lord in a world today in dare need of true salvation by punting into practise the very words of Jesus "Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them” (Mt. 18:20).

            So our celebration of Christmas call us to come together in the name of Jesus by putting all our attention on him, by obeying his very last command  “Love one another as I have loved you” (John 13:34). But how had Jesus loved us? What was the measure of his love for us? Death on the cross. We too have to be ready to die for one another, because no one has greater love than to lay down his life for his friends. These are the conditions given by Jesus himself to make sure that he is really present among us and with our cooperation even today brings true salvation to men and women of this world.

"The Word was made flesh and lived among us"

            In order to celebrate again this year our Christmas 2015 and bring the gift of a saving presence of Jesus in the worldwide family of God we come together in the attitude of love with all our neighbours ready to welcome them, to forgive, to reconcile even to lose what we like to be kind and ready to help people in need.

            By so doing we repeat once again the miracle of Jesus' birth for the world on this Christmas.

"The Word was made flesh and lived among us"