Merry Christmas!

Well, I cannot believe it but the Advent season is finally coming to a close. Monday will be Christmas Eve and then Tuesday is Christmas day! I cannot believe how fast the time has flown by.
              Many of you might remember the joy that comes with expecting a child. Well, Mary is expecting the birth of her son any day now! I always marvel at when a father and mother have their first child. The rest of the world and its troubles fade away. The new life that they hold in their arms binds them together and draws friends and family to visit and to see the newborn. Their newborn child becomes the center of their universe and they spend just hours upon hours just adoring him or her. But with the birth of Jesus, this natural desire to adore and love a newborn baby becomes supernatural. By adoring the newborn Jesus, by looking into His face, Mary, Joseph and the rest of humanity are looking into the face of God. With the birth of Jesus, God humbles himself so that we can adore Him. 
I pray that this Christmas we all get caught up in the same joy that comes with the birth of a child. May we be overwhelmed with the same wonder and awe that struck the wise men and shepherds at seeing divinity in a baby. O come let us adore Him! Christ the Savior is born!
 
Merry Christmas,
Fr. Scott