As every year the Faith or
the tradition guided us today to the church, to take part in this Mass.
As every year we are
listening to the story of the Nativity of Christ among us.
As every year in our way through
the year we are once again celebrating Christmas.
We are sending to our
friends and relative the same Christmas wishes, sometimes singing the same Christmas
Carols.
Apparently everything the
same, repeated every year in the same or similar sequence …
But only at our tables
there is somebody lacking, and instead of the person who should be there …
there is an empty place …
And I? I am a little bit
older, maybe a little bit more clever more modern, more eloquent and at the
same time more tired, more busy, and –let us be frank- weaker and more fragile.
And what about God?
Throughout centuries the
same, unchangeable, unalterable, eternal. With every Christmas He is becoming one
among us, Emanuel - God with us. Is He closer to me, every year? Am I closer to
Him every year?
For centuries the same Triune
God: the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, trying constantly to
offer me a deeper faith, more authentic love and stronger hope. He is striving to
have a place in my life.
And what about the world?
Throughout centuries and millennia
more beautiful, more attractive, more tempting and trying to overwhelm me,
trying to take over on my faith, my love, my hope and finally my life. The
world is constantly trying to separate me from God, to delay me in my journey
to Bethlehem, to distract me so that I have no time, no possibility to meet the
newborn Christ. The world is trying to distract me and to defend to listen and
to see that He is weeping over the world, becoming more and more Godless.
But we are here today, we
came to the crib, to kneel down and recognize Him as a Son of God. We are coming
today to the church to worship and to meditate this mystery of God's love. We are
coming here to the source of this love, to get something from this unutterable Mystery
of God's Love. We are coming to ask Him to be a constantly present among us, so
that the world through its sins does not fall away from His Love. We are coming
to ask Him also for ourselves, so that we don’t fall away from His love. Let us
pray for the intention that in our world we can see more God's presence in our
brothers, so that God don’t weep over the inhuman world.
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