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Christmas Isn’t Perfect – So Find Christ in Your Real Christmas
Archdiocese of Washington ^
| 12-19-14
| Msgr. Charles Pope
Posted on 12/20/2014 9:35:30 AM PST by Salvation
Christmas Isn’t Perfect – So Find Christ in Your Real Christmas
By: Msgr. Charles Pope
Most of us have a perfect Christmas in mind. Often it is the creation of Hallmark, Currier & Ives, and various marketers. But none of us will have a perfect Christmas, just a real one.
The First Christmas wasn’t perfect either. In fact, the only way to describe it is to call it a crisis. Mary was pregnant before marriage, a very dangerous thing in those times. Just at the time of birth they were required to travel eighty miles on foot to Bethlehem. There was no room for them in the inn. Joseph must have felt dejected, finding no place for his wife to give birth. Jesus is born in a stinking, dank cave. No sooner is He born than there are threats against His life and the family must flee to Egypt. There goes Joseph’s career and livelihood! Mary and Joseph are separated from family and home, from the support they likely needed.
It probably couldn’t have gone worse. There were surely no chestnuts roasting on an open fire, no roast or turkey, no gentle fallen snow.
Yet it was in that crisis of a Christmas that Jesus was found, not in the Hallmark Christmas. And whatever your Christmas holds this year, that is where He will be found. So Merry Christmas, unless another sort of Christmas awaits you. But find Christ there and it will be CHRISTmass.
This video shows an imperfect Christmas, but a good one nonetheless.
TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; History; Humor
KEYWORDS: catholic; christ; christinchristmas; christmas; christmas2014; msgrcharlespope
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posted on
12/20/2014 9:35:30 AM PST
by
Salvation
To: nickcarraway; NYer; ELS; Pyro7480; livius; ArrogantBustard; Catholicguy; RobbyS; marshmallow; ...
Monsignor Pope Ping!
Even though this is an advertisement — the message is there!
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posted on
12/20/2014 9:36:54 AM PST
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: Salvation
Mr. Mercat and I were just deciding we were not going to have a type A Christmas. Christmas happens. I’m so happy my long distance son is arriving Monday. Everything else is gravy. Oh, wait, I have to look up a recipe for giblet gravy. arrrgggg...
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posted on
12/20/2014 9:46:19 AM PST
by
Mercat
("The sisters did not want to save the world. Someone already had.")
To: Salvation
Line of the day -
". . . find Christ there and it will be CHRISTmass."
To: Salvation
Somebody sent me this one:
Whether this ever happened to me, I refuse to say...
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posted on
12/20/2014 10:49:58 AM PST
by
Mrs. Don-o
(To err is human. 'Nuff said.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
I’m sure they taste the same! Yum
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posted on
12/20/2014 11:17:43 AM PST
by
defconw
(If not now, WHEN?)
To: loveliberty2
Exactly. I don’t have kids and the furry kids have been known to destroy a tree. So I just love getting up and knowing it is one day out of the world where no one will come a bothering. :)
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posted on
12/20/2014 11:20:10 AM PST
by
defconw
(If not now, WHEN?)
To: Mrs. Don-o
Never mind — I’ll eat them.
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posted on
12/20/2014 12:40:07 PM PST
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: Mrs. Don-o
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posted on
12/20/2014 12:43:46 PM PST
by
Biggirl
(2014 MIdterms Were BOTH A Giant Wave And Restraining Order)
To: Mrs. Don-o
Reminds of the time I tried to make cheese puffs and got cheese pucks.
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posted on
12/20/2014 1:16:34 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Remember Malmedy!)
To: Tax-chick
HA! But of course I've no idea what you mean...
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posted on
12/20/2014 1:39:13 PM PST
by
Mrs. Don-o
(School of Remedial Culinary Arts)
To: Mrs. Don-o
We all have good strong teeth, fortunately.
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posted on
12/20/2014 2:17:50 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Remember Malmedy!)
To: loveliberty2
....Or rather, do not sugarcoat CHRISTmas.
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posted on
12/21/2014 3:07:05 AM PST
by
Biggirl
(2014 MIdterms Were BOTH A Giant Wave And Restraining Order)
To: Biggirl
"In the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior. The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity." - John Quincy Adams, July 4, 1837, Newburyport
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