Merry Christmas! The desire is to put the whole week after Christmas, because Christmas Day, like Easter, lasts a week (eight days, one octave). It's party "happy" par excellence, full of light and music.
The birth of the Infant God is a sign of contradiction. It brings out the best in some and worse in others. Some want to spoil the joy of the majority by diverting the Christian festival to turn it into a celebration of the winter solstice, with an emphasis on consumption.
Nevertheless, Christmas is a highlight for families. Gatherings in churches and in Christian families are around the manger and gifts. The gifts are exchanged with love compared to sunshine sparks splendid ultimate gift: "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son so that anyone who believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. "
The Church reminds us that Easter is the biggest feast of the year, but Monsieur and Madame Tout-le-Monde the magic of Christmas Eve outweighs that of the Easter Vigil. Anyway, the two celebrations forming part of the grand mystery: the invasion (infiltration, so it is not coercive) of the Earth (the whole universe created) by the Creator who "is looking for attention." God does not want to be scared of him and he presents himself as a baby. He wants to seduce us by being the All-Petit, Tout Mignon, the All-Holland.
St. Paul rightly says in the Epistle to the Galatians: "But when it came the fulfillment of time, God sent his Son, born of woman and subject to the law, pay for the release of those subject to the law, we may be given to adoptive son. Son, you're well, God has sent into our hearts the Spirit of his Son, crying: Abba - Father "(4, 4-6) all here: the incarnation, redemption, adoption . Because the Son became one of us, through him, through him, with him, in him, we become the adoptive son and daughters of God.
I've seen a Christmas card that represented the Virgin Mary holding her twin babies. In the eyes of God the Father, as good parents in the land, there is no difference between her children and her adoptive child genetically. Today is the 26th, the feast of St. Stephen, who said: "I see the heavens opened and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God." With Christ, we are standing at the right the Father.
Angels are intangible and their music is of another order than ours, but I thank God for their worship of the Son and all the Christmas carols new and traditional distilling in our hearts the joy of Birth the Savior. In our family, this year we listen with great pleasure Claire Pelletier sings "The First Christmas" on a new CD of great beauty, especially the first song, which says: "Christmas for the love of Mary / We sing joyously / Who brought the fruit of life / It was to save us. "
Bethlehem means" house of bread ". Our priest Jacques likes to remind us that if Jesus is laid in a manger is to give food. The baby Jesus is fine to eat.
Finally, I want a koan Offir Christian chewing until the light burst forth: "The wood of the crib and the wood of the Cross from the same tree."
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