Christmas Day – 25th December 2025
Dear brothers and sisters,
Today is Christmas. A day we wait for with emotion, with hope, with light in our hearts. A day when time seems to slow down and hearts open more easily. Today we do not celebrate only a beautiful memory from the past, but a living truth: God comes. God comes close. God is born for us.
The Scripture we have heard speaks with one heart and one voice. The prophet Isaiah says, “How beautiful are the feet of the one who brings good news.” These are the steps of God, who does not stay far away, but comes towards us. Christmas is the feast of these steps. God comes to us, not with noise, not with power, but with the gentleness of a child.
The Psalm invites us to sing a new song to the Lord, because He has done wonderful things. And what greater thing could God do than give us His own Son? Not an idea, not a cold command, but a life. A beating heart. A hand that touches and comforts. A child lying in a manger.
The Letter to the Hebrews tells us that God, who once spoke in many ways, now speaks to us through His Son. At Christmas, God does not speak only with words, but with flesh. With a child who cries. With a mother who holds Him close. With a father who watches in silence. God speaks to us through weakness and tenderness.
The Gospel of John takes us even deeper: “The Word became flesh and lived among us.” He lived among us. He stayed. He shared our life as it is, with joy and with pain. Christmas tells us that God is not afraid of our life, of our weakness, of our wounds.