Posted on 12/24/2010 5:41:02 AM PST by tcg
....Christmas reminds us that in the "fullness of time" God came among us. Heaven touched earth and earth has been elevated through this encounter! The all- powerful God who made both heaven and earth became a vulnerable baby and chose to give Himself to His creation in order to create it anew. Let us live as a Christmas people, offering the greatest gift of all to a world waiting to be born, a Savior, Jesus Christ, the Lord. Love is born on Christmas morn and in Him the world begins again....
....Because He has been born we are given a new Way on which to walk. We are invited to live our lives "in Him". We have been given what the beloved disciple John calls the "power to become the children of God" (John 1:12) By grace we now have the capacity to choose to freely love and be transformed into the Image, and the likeness, of Him who is Love incarnate, Jesus Christ. We are made "partakers of the Divine nature." (2 Peter 1:4)...
...This Savior who pitched His tent had room for everyone within His loving embrace! He still does, within the embrace of His Mystical Body, the Church. He loved ALL men and women-not just the "loveable", or the "pious" In fact, He was known to associate with "sinners", like everyone of us. And in that association, he gives us the graces we need to be converted and made new by cooperating with Him and living our lives in His Body. ... (READ MORE...)
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