Christmas - Dec 24
I wonder what I would have
heard had I been there that night. It is a question that annually haunts me.
Would I have heard the choirs of angels singing or simply the sounds of barnyard
animals shifting around? Would I have seen the star in the sky that night or
simply two poor and very frightened kids? Would I have understood the hushed
silence of the divine presence, or simply the chill of a cold east wind. Would I
have understood the message of Emmanuel, God with us, or would the cosmic
implications of that evening have passed me by?
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Advent 4 A
Thomas O’Loughlin
Introduction to the Celebration
Michel de Verteuil
General Comments
Introduction to the Celebration
We are beginning the
celebration of God coming to us, God being with us, we being brought into the
presence of God. This is the great mystery of Christmas: it is the feast of
Emmanuel which means ‘God is with us.’ This is our special celebration this
Sunday, but each time we gather here we remember the words of Jesus: ‘When two
or three are gathered here in my name, I am there among them’. So, let us spend
time reminding ourselves that Jesus is among us, we are in his presence in this
gathering, and recalling that we are the people who proclaim him as Emmanuel:
God is with us.
--------------Michel de Verteuil
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