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MEANING AND MESSAGE OF CHRISTMAS

Christmas mean different things to different people. To some people it is the time of merry making, to others it is the time to buy new clothes, new shoes, new necklace e.t.c.; to some it is time to eat and drink and get drunk, while to some people, it is time to embrace Christ who has come to us in the form of man. At Christmas many are so busy with material preparations, parties, shopping, gift-giving that they practically forget whose birthday we are about to observe. There is always more for the one who has eyes to see and ears to hear. The meaning and message of Christmas is a complex mystery of profound and immense importance. One can outline them in the following ways: 1. INCARNATION - GOD BECAME MAN Over and above all, Christmas has its root and basis in the mystery of God becoming man. The incarnati...

JESUS, THE WOUNDED HEALER!

Heb 4:12-16; Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 15 (R. John 6:63c); Mark 2:13-17 Can you try and make a spiritual journey with me for a moment? Assume the position of Levi in Mark 2:13-17. Imagine yourself at the commercial centre of the city making serious money like Levi, and then Jesus comes along to call you. Can you leave all your wealth behind to follow him as Levi did? Apart from that, Levi was considered a public sinner by the same society to which Jesus belonged. Yet Jesus broke protocols to call him. That is an unmerited favour. Imagine yourself, a sinner like Levi, and Jesus broke the protocols and gave himself up on the wood of the cross just to save you. It is also an unmerited favour. How did Levi react to that unmerited favour? He left everything to follow Jesus (Mark 2:14). More than that, he attracted people like him to also follow Jesus (Mark 2:15). We are all beneficiaries of the unmerited favour. St Paul says that it was while we were still sinners that Jesus died f...

A Review of the Fundamental Principles of the Liturgy

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