Topic: Christmas

The Christmas story includes a message of God’s solidarity with and care for children and families who live in fear and who flee to seek refuge. We corrupt the message if we make it about our children and not all children.

The Christ child is the light who enlightens the world and as his love takes root in our hearts and lives, it causes us to light up the darkness.

In the birth of the baby we see the presence of God in smallness and obscurity, enabling us to see that small beginnings are no obstacle to big visions of the reign of justice and peace and freedom.

Let us keep the festival by standing confidently, and affirming our faith in the God who takes flesh among us, today!

After the big event of Christmas, it is faithfulness in our everyday living that produces growth and godliness.

In the face of monumental devastation and suffering, God speaks a word, and the word becomes flesh.

A modern paraphrase of a homily for the Feast of the Nativity by Ephraim the Syrian (306-373CE) taken from his second Christmas hymn.

A modern paraphrase of the Nativity Sermon of St John Chrysostom, first Preached in Antioch in 386AD

A modern paraphrase of a homily for the Feast of the Nativity by St Leo the Great.

A modern paraphrase of a Homily from St Gregory Nazianzus for the Feast of the Nativity