At Christmas, as we look into the crib and gaze upon the baby Jesus, God is teaching us a lesson about how we are to live. By nature, we can be rather selfish.
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We often don’t like to serve others, we would rather serve ourselves.
We don’t like to be last, we would rather be first. We would prefer to be higher up even at the cost of others.
But, in Christmas, God is offering another way saying, “Learn from me how to live a life of service.”
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God wants more of us than to just visit the manger in awe and wonder. We are to imitate the Child we adore and surrender our lives to him.
If we do, he will be with us as the greatest friend we could have, and the real peace and joy of this day will be in our hearts – not just today, but in every day that will follow.
We are to imitate the Child we adore and surrender our lives to him.
- Fr Sean Cullen, Catholic Church parish priest
While we rightly reflect on and give thanks for the goodness of those we celebrate this Christmas with, the challenge is to do the same for those others – the ill or dying among our families and friends, the “black sheep”, the one who is struggling.
God delights in us even more than we delight in the sounds, sights and tastes of Christmas Day.
I invite you to come home for Christmas this year and experience God’s delight in you at one of the hundreds of Christmas Masses being celebrated in the Diocese of Wollongong. Visit christmas.dow.org.au for times.
By Fr Sean Cullen, the parish priest of St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Parish in Bowral and St Michael’s Catholic Parish in Mittagong.
