Mystery / Myth of CHRISTMAS?


On the Fourth Advent Sunday, Fr Tony (the Confessor) celebrated the mass in the Parish. During the Homily he told us about the celebrations of Christmas from a different perspective. I personally liked the way the homily was put across to us, and so I feel like sharing it. Christmas celebration has been changing from time to time and from generation to generation.

Christmas is the feast for the entire humanity. It is the feast where God himself chose to be born as human to redeem the humanity. So it has been our great joy to celebrate the feast in great pomp and sound. Unfortunately this celebration has become today as merely a commercial event and a date to get together and to make merry. As a result the baby Jesus is given less priority and much less about our personal reflection on life.  

Gradually we have lost the mystery of Christmas where God becoming man and we only preoccupied with the myth of the Christmas. Well, what is this myth of Christmas? A good question to be asked. It is all about our concern about the events and things of Christmas. Especially of St Nicholas (Santa clause), crib, cards, cakes, clothes, carols and etc. Thus, we have made the Christmas celebration as if it is only of external preparation. Thus we are not preparing our hearts for the baby Jesus to enter into our hearts. In stead we are carried away by the myth of Christmas saying no to baby Jesus to enter into our hearts. This reflects the words of those inn keepers who told Joseph ‘There is no place in the inn.’

So les us think about the mystery of Christmas (incarnation) and celebrate Christmas accompanied by the myth of Christmas. Thus we make our Christmas more meaningful saying Come Lord Jesus and Dwell in my Heart.



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