Christmas Night - Sermon thoughts (Lk 2, 1-14)
Fist of all I wish you all a very blessed Christmas.
May the remembrance of the new born Christ Child
empower and cherish our lives.
In today’s Gospel we come across with Luke’s special narration of the History. It starts with the description of Augustus the Caesar.
But this does not provide us a full description of that majestic, historical King. A re-reading of the passage will explain us -
this story of the Caesar gives way to another story;
it is the narration about Jesus,
a poor child of poor carpenter and his simple housewife.
And this child seems to be greater than the Caesar Augustus:
and of course he is so.
He is not merely a baby in the crib.
He is the only son of God.
And because of that, Luke describes about this child…more than the Caesar.
There are two histories which we trace out from this passage.
The colourful and powerful history of Kings and Emperors…
A history between Men…Story of Kings and kingdoms…
They are filled with wars and pacts, loss and gain.
Some rulers were really good in serving their reign.
And some lived at the cost of others.
Any how this reign of Humans did never quench the thirst of many.
They were still in search of a better “reign”…
Here we see the second history: the Salvation History.
It is a History of God and Man.
Surely this Kingdom cannot satisfy “some” of the human physical needs. Because this King deals with the Heart and Soul of the people.
The history of this world needs a divine intervention.
It is then only complete- this narration can be explained in such a manner:
Here is the importance of Christmas!
God incarnates means; he is “taking flesh” in to the history of me and you.
He is becoming an “experiencing reality”.
Not like in the Old times…
He comes not to show his might and power, but to save me and you;
To save all of us.
He comes not with law and sword or with his soldiers.
He comes with love and justice and his message is peace, joy and justice.
My dear friends,
Christmas is a call to recognize our Stories, our history.
Then our history is not a mere earthly history.
It is blessed by the incarnated God.
He is Emmanuel, the God who is with us.
We realize from the Bible that,
people were not satisfied at the time of Jesus. It was the same before Jesus.
They were unsatisfied even Yahweh was guiding them.
It remains same in our time too.
In that sense all these Christmas celebrations of
God’s incarnation alone cannot solve all our issues.
One can achieve the grace of this wonder,
if he is ready to accept God, in to one’s life.
Our participation is required and it is a must to experience God-incarnated.
And it is God alone, who can fill the “Islands of Unsatisfactions” in our lives.
Christmas is a call to connect our story with “His” Story.
He can transform our stories of unhappiness to a blessed one.
He can transform our Families to a place of happiness and Peace
He can transform our Churches to places of brotherly love and joy.
Christmas is accurately this call to get transformed.
It is not something that happens externally.
But it should happen in the spirit and faith; in thoughts and deeds.
As “the Word was made Flesh”…
Then it is Christmas…a real “to be with God”…
Let us experience this Christmas Season in this new Transformed Spirit!
Amen.
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Fr Thomas Kalathil
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