Merry Christmas!

    

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

[What follows is my annual Christmas message to the Adorers at St. Agatha's. I hope it will also

resonate in the hearts of my readers]

 “And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us”. - John 1:14

As we begin our nineteenth year of Adoration, we give thanks to our Loving Lord for the Gift of His Presence here among us. How blessed we are to spend time with Him, sometimes by ourselves and, from time to time, with other silent, prayerful Adorers. Like the lowly Shepherds and the foreign Wise Men who first paid Him homage, we too come to adore the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. As we kneel in front of our Precious Savior, embraced by this priceless Monstrance, blessed by our late Holy Father, St. John Paul II, we are gazing upon the very same Jesus who took on human flesh and walked this earth, albeit concealed in the Sacred Host.

Right before our very eyes is:

            The Infant Jesus born to a Virgin and totally dependent on Mary and Joseph;

            The child Jesus exiled for a time in Egypt to prevent his premature murder and death;

            The twelve-year old Jesus separated from His Mother and St. Joseph for five days;

            The maturing, ever obedient Jesus, who grew in wisdom under the direction and guidance            of the Holy Spirt, His Blessed Mother and her husband, his step-father, Joseph;

            The carpenter Jesus;

            The itinerant preacher Jesus;

            The healing Jesus, the Jesus who multiplied the loaves and fishes and the Jesus who rose the son of a widow in Nain as well as his friend Lazarus from the dead;

            The loving, forgiving and merciful Jesus;

            The Jesus abandoned by His disciples during His Passion;

            The tortured and crucified Jesus who gave up His earthly life that we might have an          opportunity at eternal life; and 

            The Resurrected Jesus Who awaits our visits and welcomes us into His open arms and      Sacred Heart, but Who is so frequently ignored and abandoned in His Churches.

No gift we could receive or give to anyone this Christmas could ever match the gift of His Real and physical presence among us. How privileged we are to eat His Body and drink His blood and to spend time with Him.

Thank you for so generously giving Him an hour (or more) of your time each week. May our love for Him be evident to those with whom we interact so that they too will be drawn to this Sacred Place.

“I am with you always, even to the end of the age”. - Matthew 28:20

Merry Christmas - December 2019