Pat, thank you for all you do for us daily, it is much appreciated. My thanks also to all our homilists, Thank you.
May I offer some words of Karl Rahner’ from his essay ” Understanding Christmas” (Theological Investigations, Vol.XXIII.1992. pp.140-148).
“The eternal future has entered our live Its brightness is still dazzling….a blessed night, a beautiful night..cosy and sheltering, because of the eternal day that it carries in its dark womb. It is a silent night. holy night.. But it is so only for us if we allow that stillness of that night to enter our inner person, then in our hearts too ‘ all is calm.’
Because it is Christmas, because the Word was made flesh, God is near, and the faintest word in the quiet chamber of our heart, the word of love, reaches his ear and his heart.
We must be quiet and not fear the night, else we will hear nothing. For the ultimate message is uttered only in the night’s stillness ever since, through the gracious arrival of the Word into the night of our life, Christmas’ silent night, holy night came down upon us.”
Pat, thank you for all you do for us daily, it is much appreciated. My thanks also to all our homilists, Thank you.
May I offer some words of Karl Rahner’ from his essay ” Understanding Christmas” (Theological Investigations, Vol.XXIII.1992. pp.140-148).
“The eternal future has entered our live Its brightness is still dazzling….a blessed night, a beautiful night..cosy and sheltering, because of the eternal day that it carries in its dark womb. It is a silent night. holy night.. But it is so only for us if we allow that stillness of that night to enter our inner person, then in our hearts too ‘ all is calm.’
Because it is Christmas, because the Word was made flesh, God is near, and the faintest word in the quiet chamber of our heart, the word of love, reaches his ear and his heart.
We must be quiet and not fear the night, else we will hear nothing. For the ultimate message is uttered only in the night’s stillness ever since, through the gracious arrival of the Word into the night of our life, Christmas’ silent night, holy night came down upon us.”