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Christmas 2017 Midnight Mass

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Fr. Chad VanHoose December 25, 2017

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I think that is admitting over the last few years that they released us Star Wars ride around the Christmas tree I've had the opportunity to watch movies with my family when I come visit at home with that now no spoilers tonight I haven't seen the new one but I like the central how are force and Cowboys versus the Jedi tar and darling LOL there will be a new hope there will be someone to come and see through the light that light shining in the Darkness and this brothers and sisters is what we celebrate in this solemnity of our Lord's birth at Christmas it's been said that the night is darkest just before the dawn and this was the case in the coming of Jesus our savior earlier today we heard the genie Reggie of Jesus that listing of all of the names of Jesus's lineage and they were good characters and there were Wicked characters as the years with the darkness Brew more and more I love that line from famous Christian Christmas hymn O Holy Night that said long lay the world in sin and error pining till he appeared and the Soul felt it's worth the door what's oppressive the darkness was large but as on that first day of creation God said let there be light Jesus bro fourth into our world shown in the darkness and the Darkness will not overcome in Isaiah prophesied about this Liberation long before G disappeared we hear it in our first reading today that the Yoke the pole the rod will be smashed these images of slavery here are Vindicator will come and liberate bringing us to himself how did God choose to shine his light in the Darkness Isaiah prophesize this as well for a child is born to us a son is given to us and on upon his shoulder Dominion rest as we put that Christ child in the manger at the start of our liturgy Jesus came to us as an unassuming baby baby who would say the world a few weeks ago one of our staff members was with some of our school children with the catechesis of the Good Shepherd and she was explaining that Jesus came as a baby to save the world in one of the young boys his hand and said how could a baby save the world this is a profound question that each of us could meditate 4 days because I think we just take it for granted we take the story of Jesus for granted can a baby Deliver Us slaves Deliver us from our lawlessness it's this that this baby Jesus Christ is both God and man could bridge the gap the Gap that was formed by our first parents that removed us that separated man from God only Jesus the God man could be that Gap and this started at his conception continued at his birth which we celebrate today and then it was found its fulfillment in his passion death and Resurrection Jesus is that seed of the woman that we hear prophesied from the beginning of the Bible from the beginning of the book of Genesis that seed that would swash the head of the serpent but to defeat the darkness of death this baby this Christ child would have to die and Rise himself archbishops Archbishop Fulton Sheen prolific speaker and writer from our own country in the 20th century said that every other person who ever came into this world came Intuit to live but Jesus came into our world to die his death on the cross cast a shadow All the Way to Bethlehem this Shadow reached all the way to his birth so that as we put Jesus in a wooden manger scene trough later he would hang on another piece of wood he's playing on the cross for us where he would give his flesh as true food for the Salvation of the world Indus celebration this great joyous night we celebrate that we celebrate that Jesus would again here become that word made flesh then on this altar that he would be that bread of angels that Heavenly food to sustain us and to win our salvation tonight brothers and sisters we celebrate good news of great joy for all the nations Jesus has conquered the darkness and a risen like the dawn may his light shine also in every human heart come let us adore him Christ the lord

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