30 December 2024
Bethlehem means “house of bread.” Indeed, “bread of life, staff of
life.” You will come, then, as the shepherds came. You will kneel as they did
in adoration. And if your vision of faith is clear enough, you will see at the
Altar not merely bread and wine, but the Christ-Child, the Word made flesh.
After Christmas? You will do the same as did the Wise Men. They went home by
another way, not by way of Jerusalem. You will go another way, the way of the
new life. And with the shepherds you will also make known abroad all that you
have seen and realized. The confession—“Who for us men and for our salvation
came down from Heaven and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary
and was made man,” will be more than a vague truth, more than an historical event.
Christmas will be an experience. You will truly understand the truth of the
angelic words: “They shall call His Name Immanuel, which is being interpreted,
God with us,” aye, Immanuel—at the Altar.
Berthold Von Schenk
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