Newsletter December 18th 2022 (4th Sunday of Advent)

Something to ponder

Jesus shares our lot, our life-experience and our troubles.

· At Christmas we will concentrate on the simplicity and poverty of Our Lord’s birth: how human he was, born of a young woman, not in luxurious comfort, but in the discomfort of a stable.

· That shows him as one of us, the human side of “Emmanuel.”

· This gospel however mentions the divine origin of Jesus.

· Although he has a human mother, he has not a human father, but was        conceived in Mary by the power of God.

· This unique way of coming into life, with God as father, and the virgin Mary as mother, underlines who Jesus truly is: both God and man, one of ourselves and yet one with the eternal God.