Well my timing has been shaky the past couple of days, but I'm back on track today (praise God). The opening prayer at mass today says, "May the splendor of your glory dawn in our hearts, we pray, almighty God, that all shadows of the night may be scattered and we may be shown to be children of light by the advent of your Only Begotten Son." Christ comes to us on Christmas Day like the dawn that rises and overcomes the darkness of night.
There are many "shadows" in our life that can haunt us and keep us in the darkness, keep us from fulling living that Christmas joy. Jesus comes to us to scatter these shadows, to defeat all the forces of evil and to send them far from us, so that we may be "children of light". In other words, He comes to us so that the darkness and the shadows of our life may no longer cast a cloud over us, but that we may live in the great freedom of the children of God and live only in His light, which overcomes all darkness.
As we draw closer and closer to Christmas, bring to Jesus the shadows in your life. Invite Him into every corner of your heart so that His dawn may dispel every shadow of darkness from you and that you may live only as a child of the light, knowing the intense, passionate freedom known only to the children of God. This Christmas, may the splendor of God's glory dawn in your heart, that all shadows of the night may be scattered and that you may be shown to be a child of the light by the advent of the Only Begotten Son of God.
Pax Vobiscum
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