Nothing equals the joys of Christmas, except the mysteries of Christmas. For believers, the mysteries begin with the Incarnation of God becoming a baby, born of a virgin, coming poor to earth in swaddling clothes in a manger lit only by a distant lone star—the very form of God whose fingertips fingers had the same God from whose tips planets and comets and suns had fallen.
This, to Christians, is an exquisite mystery that passes all understanding, and yet they believe because they can comprehend the mystery with the mind of their faith. Believing a story too magical to be true is part of the reason why Christmas makes people as merry as children and sentimental.
Of course, for non-believers the Christmas story about divinity in a stable is pure fable. There can be no mystery to them that they had rejected the truth of the story in the first place. Apart from this, they do not accept anything beyond the border of reason and the province of the senses. And there are some among them who are so sure that God does not exist.
The most that assorted unbelievers could concede is that Jesus Christ was an extraordinary man with magical powers to inspire and captivate masses of people, a great teacher, perhaps, a prophetBut any suggestion that he was God or God-Man is too much for them.[profetaPerocualquiersugerenciadequeéleraDiosoDios-Hombreesparaellosdemasiado[prophetButanysuggestionthathewasGodorGod-Manistothemjusttoomuch
But Christmas has some mysteries incorporated even for the most incredulous. And these mysteries are more perplexing to them precisely because they do not believe, rejecting all tools of perception except reason. There are facts about Christmas and Christ that are established, known, accepted by all. It is these facts that have generated enigmas that have disturbed and puzzled non-believers.
How is it that of all the thousands of magnificent men who walked this earth, only Christ had become the main measure of the life of humanity? In the calendar of human existence, it occupies a central place: all the years and centuries after it are listed as before Christ, before Christ, and all the years and centuries after it are marked as AD, after death. , as if the whole world revolved around him. .
Why does the whole world, both Christians and non-Christians, celebrate the feast of his birth, which is now approaching the year 3000, as no one else does?
Bishop Fulton Sheen, America’s most beloved preacher, once said that Good Friday was necessary. ” There would be no Easter Sunday if it weren’t for Good Friday. ” Couldn’t it also be said that Christmas is more necessary? Without Christmas, neither Good Friday nor Easter Sunday would have happened.
Once again, there is the eternal quality of his Church. From Peter to Pope John Paul II, the heritage is intact. Stalin once mocked the Pope in Rome.” “How many divisions does he have?” One could imagine the envy that consumes those who deny Christ even his credentials as the promised Messiah. One sees the same stubbornness, despite the overwhelming evidence , which has given to The Jewish people have many problems. There are those who would try to take revenge. What cunning efforts they make to obscure or twist the meaning of Christmas.
Keep in mind that some Christmas cards and announcements speak only of “Yuletide” or “Seasons Greetings.” The word Christmas is avoided at all costs. No reference to the Nativity is made. Christmas trees replacing nativity scenes could be part of the subtle campaign to subvert Christmas.
Christmas celebrates perhaps the most important event in the life of the world. It is a love story between God and the world. It is a love story between God and man, divinity humbling itself to share humanity with man. Let’s take care to celebrate Christmas with meaning, without trivializing it with jingles, trinkets and tinsel.