These Last Days News - December 21, 2011

Pope Benedict Reflects on the True, Christian Meaning of Christmas...

"The children of God will face enslavement by the enemies of God, known as your world Christianity, unless you pray and carry the banner of Faithful and True to God the Father." - Our Lady of the Roses, September 7, 1974

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Pope Benedict Asks Christians to Highlight Religious Meaning of Christmas...

Catholic News Service reported on December 21, 2011:

Pope Benedict XVI asked Christians to highlight the real meaning, the religious meaning, of Christmas as they celebrate the holidays.

"Celebrate a truly Christian Christmas," he said, one marked by "the joy of knowing that God is close and wants to walk with us on our journey through life."

"Let us make sure that even in today's society our Christmas greetings do not lose their profound religious meaning and the celebration is not absorbed by exterior aspects," the pope said Dec. 21.

With about 5,000 pilgrims and visitors gathered for his weekly general audience Dec. 21, the pope said he knows people today sometimes find it hard to begin a relationship with God, who they cannot see, and to truly celebrate the birth of Jesus, an event that occurred 2,000 years ago.

Yet the Christmas liturgy proclaims, "Today a savior is born for us," he said.

The liturgy's use of "today," he said, means that "today, right now, God offers us -- me and each one of you -- the possibility of knowing him and welcoming him as the shepherds of Bethlehem did. He is born into our lives, renews them and transforms them with his grace and his presence."

Christmas and Easter are closely connected in the life of faith, he said. Christmas celebrates the fact that God entered into history to bring humanity back to God, while his death and resurrection celebrate the fulfillment of his mission to vanquish death and sin.

"On Christmas, we encounter the tenderness and love of God who bends down over our limits, our weaknesses, our sins, and lowers himself down to us," the pope said. Christmas is "a prelude to his lowering himself at his passion, the culmination of the story of love between God and human beings, which passes through the manger at Bethlehem and the tomb in Jerusalem."

Among those at the audience were U.S. Cardinal William J. Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and his classmates who were celebrating the 50th anniversary of their ordinations to the priesthood Dec. 20, 1961, in St. Peter's Basilica.

Before the audience, Cardinal Levada and Archbishop John G. Vlazny of Portland, Ore., the cardinal's classmate, visited the Nativity scene in the audience hall and greeted members of a mariachi band from the University of Queretaro, Mexico.

Pope Benedict XVI Reflects on Christmas and "the great Mystery of the Incarnation"...

Vatican Information Service reported on December 21, 2011:

"The greeting on everyone's lips during this period is 'Merry Christmas! Happy Christmas Holidays!'. Let us ensure that, also in our modern societies, this exchange of good wishes does not lose its profound religious significance, and the feast does not become overshadowed by external factors", said Benedict XVI during today's general audience, his last before the Feast of the Lord's Nativity.

"With the Christmas liturgy the Church introduces us into the great Mystery of the Incarnation", the Pope told faithful gathered in the Paul VI Hall. "Christmas, in fact, is not simply the anniversary of the birth of Jesus, it is the celebration of a Mystery which has marked and continues to mark the history of man: God came to dwell amongst us, He became one of us. ... During Midnight Mass on Christmas Night we will intone these words in the responsorial Psalm: 'Today the Saviour is born for us'. ... By indicating that Jesus is born 'today', the liturgy underlines that His birth touches and permeates all of history. ... Of course, the redemption of humankind took place at a specific and identifiable moment of history: in the event of Jesus of Nazareth. But Jesus is the Son of God ... Who became flesh. Eternity entered into the confines of time and space, making it possible to meet Him 'today'. ... When, in liturgical celebrations, we hear or pronounce the phrase: 'Today the Saviour is born for us', we are not using an empty conventional expression, what we mean is that 'today', now, God is giving us the possibility to recognise and accept Him, as did the shepherds of Bethlehem, so that He can also be born into and renew our lives".

The Pope then turned his attention to another aspect, reflecting on the birth in Bethlehem in the light of the Paschal Mystery because, he said, "both Christmas and Easter are feasts of redemption. Easter celebrates redemption as a victory over sin and death. It marks the culminating moment when the glory of the Man-God shines like the light of day. Christmas celebrates redemption as the entry of God into history, when He became man in order to bring man to God. It marks, so to speak, the starting point when the first light of dawn begins to appear".

"Even the seasons of the year in which these two great feasts fall, at least in some areas of the world, can help us understand this aspect. Easter coincides with the beginning of spring when the sun triumphs over the cold and the fog and renews the face of the earth. Christmas comes at the very beginning of winter when the light and heat of the sun are unable to awaken nature, covered in a shroud of cold under which, nonetheless, life is pulsating".

"At Christmas we encounter the tenderness and love of God Who is attentive to our weakness and sin, and lowers Himself to our level. ... Let us live this Christmastime with joy. ... Above all, let us contemplate and experience this Mystery in the celebration of the Eucharist, which is the heart of Christmas. There Jesus is truly present, the true Bread descended from heaven, the true Lamb sacrificed for our salvation. I wish all of you and your families a truly Christian Christmas. May the exchange of greetings on that day be an expression of our joy in knowing that God is near us, and that He wishes to follow the journey of life with us", the Pope concluded.

The poor cannot wait

At the end of his general audience, the Holy Father delivered greetings in a number of languages to the pilgrims filling the Paul VI Hall, among them a group of primary school children from Korea and another of Australian seminarians. To Spanish speaking pilgrims he said: "I will pray to the God Child for everyone, especially those who suffer. In these holy days, may Christian charity be particularly active towards those most in need. The poor can brook no delay".

"Man is setting up false idols to worship: money, power, materialism. My children, none of this will have any value to you when you leave this world. You must now gather and store your treasures in Heaven if you want and wish to go there. These are called graces, graces given freely for the asking, graces for cures of the spirit before they come over the veil." - Our Lady of the Roses, July 25, 1977

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