Merry Christmas!

12-25-2019Weekly Reflection

Blessed Christmas to each of you!

We are the shepherds! We have a responsibility.

We are a few days removed from the actual birth of Jesus. The angels have appeared to the outsiders of that time, the shepherds, and have told them about a wondrous birth of an infant and who he was and what he was destined to do. Therefore, they all decide to go see this miracle themselves. They go in haste.

Because of the experience of what they see, they become the first evangelists: "they made known the message that had been told them about this child." That is why I call them the first evangelists.

That is our calling too, as we see this great event happening in our lives. Jesus, the infant who was born more than two thousand years ago, will come into our lives again as we receive Communion today, and then we become like the shepherds going out and telling all we know about this infant. We are called to glorify and praise God for all that we have seen and heard.

Go be shepherds. Merry Christmas!