{"id":5258,"date":"2016-12-25T13:56:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T18:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ancientfaith.com\/roadsfromemmaus\/?p=5258"},"modified":"2016-12-25T13:58:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T18:58:12","slug":"christmas-meaningful-magical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ancientfaith.com\/asd\/2016\/12\/25\/christmas-meaningful-magical\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas More Meaningful Than Magical"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nativity of Christ, December 25, 2016
\nGalatians 4:4-7; Matthew 2:1-12
\nV. Rev. Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick<\/i><\/p>\n

In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God. Amen. Christ is born!<\/p>\n

C<\/span>hristmas can be magical. Many of us remember that when from when we were kids, and we try to recapture it as adults. And we often fail.<\/p>\n

Someone\u2019s ruined Christmas for me again, I may think. There\u2019s that old family argument. There\u2019s that cold shoulder. There\u2019s that Christmas feast that isn\u2019t anything like the one my mom used to make. There are those lame cookies or that brutal fruitcake. There\u2019s that endless bickering and gossiping and droning on and on about stuff I don\u2019t care about. There\u2019s that passive-aggressiveness. Don\u2019t people know it\u2019s Christmas<\/i>? What\u2019s wrong with them?<\/p>\n

The disenchantment often comes with marriage. A husband and wife come together, each with a set of expectations and requirements for what the good life looks like. And even though there may be some matches between them, there are often more mismatches than matches. What looks like a magical Christmas to one just seems kind of off<\/i> to the other. What is critical for one in making holidays special is just sort of pointless to the other. Why can\u2019t my spouse just be normal<\/i>?<\/p>\n

Families can find themselves living in a day-to-day truce at best. Where is the harmony? Where is the memory-making I was promised? Where are all the things we used to have in common? Why do they have to keep ruining Christmas, sometimes with a bang but more often with a whimper?<\/p>\n

Holidays, but especially Christmas in our culture, are often put into service of the real purpose of marriage and family life. And what is that purpose?<\/p>\n

It is to reveal our sins\u2014so that we can be healed of them.<\/p>\n

When a couple is newly married and find themselves fighting all the time, or when parents find themselves exasperated by their kids and wondering if it wouldn\u2019t be illegal just to sell them off or drop them off in the woods and never look back, or when kids become finally convinced that their parents are really the dumbest people on the planet, or when a couple that\u2019s been married for some time look at each other and think \u201cI just don\u2019t like you,\u201d then that is the moment that we know it\u2019s working.<\/p>\n

Family life reveals sins, so Christmas reveals sins, even when it\u2019s just perfect. In fact, Christmas reveals sins best when it really is perfect.<\/p>\n

But what is a perfect Christmas? Is it one with ham or turkey or lamb? Is it a quiet evening with the kids or a massive bustling chaos-fest with endless relations? Is it scads of presents or just that one thoughtful gift?<\/p>\n

You can pick any of those things and not really make for a perfect Christmas. So what is a perfect Christmas? A perfect Christmas is what we\u2019re doing right now\u2014worshiping Jesus Christ and communing with Him in His holy house. That\u2019s a perfect Christmas.<\/p>\n

And if we think of what the coming of Jesus does, it definitely reveals sins. In the Gospel reading today, we meet Herod. And of course we immediately think about his rage in finding that a rival for his throne had been born and his evil slaughter of thousands of young boys as he sought to kill the Messiah.<\/p>\n

The epistle reading from Galatians talks about the revelation of Christ showing that we had been living as slaves. Slavery is most certainly sin, even the most benign variety you can think of. Why? It\u2019s because God did not make us for bondage, for having no freedom. He made us for freedom. And so when one truly free Man steps onto the scene in the person of Jesus, the contrast shows that we are actually all slaves. Because that\u2019s what a free man looks like, and we\u2019re not that. We\u2019re slaves to sin. We\u2019re slaves to our sinful desires. Christmas has revealed sin.<\/p>\n

So even when we really get it<\/i> by celebrating Christmas the right way, focusing on Jesus, then what\u2019s going to happen is that sin will be revealed. Remembering that Christmas is part of the story of Jesus doesn\u2019t make Christmas \u201cmagical\u201d again, where everything is rosy and beautiful and unforgettable. Focusing on the story of Jesus makes us remember that He came here to do something, and that was to wrestle with death and put it down. He came here to save His people from their sins. His very name means “Yahweh saves,” that is, the one true God saves.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not asking you to make sure Christmas remains Christian for you as some kind of religious duty\u2014you know, \u201ckeep Christ in Christmas\u201d and all that. Rather, what I am asking of you—and myself—today is to paint a whole new image in your mind of just what we\u2019re doing here.<\/p>\n

Here in our church and in our families and in our private prayers, we are asking God to reveal our sins. We should never be surprised when they\u2019re revealed. It\u2019s an answer to prayer. And we should never be surprised when it hurts, when it\u2019s frustrating, when we feel like giving up, especially at these moments when we thought everything was supposed to be perfect.<\/p>\n

But don\u2019t give up. There is something worth fighting for here. There is something worth making our own here. There is something here that is going to reveal everything and finally put everything to rights and finally vindicate everything. Finally, we will have a truly perfect Christmas.<\/p>\n

And what is it? What makes this feast day so truly special, truly worth keeping in memory and truly worth fighting for? It is that Christ was born into the world to save us sinners, to save us from our sins, to bring us love that we can\u2019t even imagine\u2014love that ends all arguments, love that ends all pain, love that ends all imperfections, love that ends all loneliness, love that ends all hunger, love that finally makes everything make deep and lasting sense, love that is meaning in its final and perfect sense.<\/p>\n

In meditating on the Incarnation of Jesus Christ, that the Son of God became man, the early Christian theologian Irenaeus of Lyons wrote this: \u201cThe Word of God, our Lord Jesus Christ… through His transcendent love, [became] what we are, that He might bring us to be even what He is Himself\u201d (Against Heresies<\/i>, Book 5, Preface).<\/p>\n

He became what we are so that we might become what He is. That is the Incarnation\u2019s purpose. That is what Christmas means. We can sometimes get so caught up in \u201cthe meaning of Christmas\u201d that we sometimes forget to ask what Christmas means. When we think of \u201cthe meaning of Christmas,\u201d it\u2019s often in terms of trying to steer our minds back to the baby in the manger. Okay. But what does that baby in the manger mean?<\/p>\n

Christmas means that God has come in the flesh, that He came as one of us so that we might become like Him. Christmas means rescue. It means healing. It means being saved from all the garbage that seems to surface so easily at this time of year.<\/p>\n

Of course<\/i> our sins are all coming out to play around Christmas. So much the better so that we can see that we need to be healed. So much the better so that we can see that we are slaves who need to be adopted as sons. This is what Christmas means\u2014that we who are broken and messed up and feel hopeless have hope. We the hopeless have hope!<\/p>\n

That may not be magical, but it certainly is meaningful<\/i>. Christmas means the Incarnation, which has but one purpose\u2014to unite God and man so that we can receive what we all need so very much. We need Jesus. We need Him so much. What\u2019s wrong with us is that we\u2019re missing Him.<\/p>\n

We are gathering mystically now at the manger in Bethlehem. And as we crowd around that manger and see that baby, we are actually meeting God. Because that\u2019s Who that baby is. And so we bring to Him our own gifts\u2014our selves, our lives, even in our imperfections and sins. And He will take what we bring Him and sanctify it and make it His own. It\u2019s only in Him that we really can be who we are. And that\u2019s a perfect Christmas.<\/p>\n

To the Christ Who is born for us be all glory, honor and worship, with His Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen. Christ is born!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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