How Blessed We Are in Christ Jesus (Some Thoughts On Christmas)

Throughout these End Times, this Age of the Church, persons far holier and far more knowledgeable than I have commented on the significance of Christmas and the birth of Our Savior into this world.  

“And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth,” wrote St. John the Beloved Disciple in the opening of his Gospel (1:14). 

“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to ransom those under the law, so that we might receive adoption,” St. Paul wrote in his Letter to the Galatians (4:4-5), 

 
“Christ came in order to bring us back from a state of bondage to a state of liberty,” wrote St. Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theologiae, (See Third Part, Question 35, Article 8).

 
“The Divine Nature, which was pure and holy, entered as a renovating principle into the corrupted line of Adam’s race, without being affected by corruption,” wrote the Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen in his book The Life of Christ.  “Through the Virgin Birth, Jesus Christ became operative in human history without being subject to the evil in it.”  (See Chapter 2). 

“The coming of God’s Son to earth is an event of such immensity that God willed to prepare for it over centuries,” declared the Catechism of the Catholic Church.  (See Paragraph 555).  

 
“When darkness and evil seem to prevail, Christ tells us once more: Fear not!,” said Pope St. John Paul II in his Homily for Midnight Mass in 2001.   “By his coming into the world he has vanquished the power of evil [emphasis in original], freed us from the slavery of death and brought us back to the banquet of life.”

 
“He came to restore beauty and dignity to creation, to the universe: this is what began at Christmas and makes the angels rejoice,” said Pope Benedict XVI in his Homily for Christmas Eve Mass in 2007.  “The Earth is restored to good order by virtue of the fact that it is opened up to God, it obtains its true light anew, and in the harmony between human will and divine will, in the unification of height and depth, it regains its beauty and dignity. Thus Christmas is a feast of restored creation.”

 
God has enlightened these persons with His Holy Spirit and many others with profound insight and understanding into the birth of Jesus and his redemptive mission on Earth.  Through St. John, St. Paul, and many other saints and holy persons, God has revealed Himself, His Son, and the nature of His Being.

 
As we prepare to celebrate Jesus’s birth, I would like to offer a few of my thoughts (hopefully Divinely inspired) on this occasion. 

 
Jesus’s birth is a historical event that transcends history.  It is an event which marks the entry into time from the Son of the Creator of Time who exists outside of time.  

The Creator sent His Only Begotten Son into His Creation to redeem His created from the errors and sins which His Created created.  Only the direct intervention of a Most Loving Creator could redeem His created from the sins that we have created.  

 
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life,” Jesus told Nicodemus in St. John’s Gospel.  “For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him”  (John 3:16-7).  

 
In several of my previous writings for this website, I have quoted this passage and I quote here again because it most succinctly and definitively explains why Jesus the Son of God came into this world.  It most succinctly and definitively explains how blessed we are in Christ Jesus.  Let us be mindful of how blessed we are in Christ Jesus, especially at this Christmas time.