When you give presents to the people you love, remember that the giving of gifts is not a human invention. God started it all when he gave us the priceless gift of His Son in order to save humanity.
Jesus did not come to earth as an explorer or a tourist, nor as an educator or an itinerant preacher. Jesus came as a Savior seeking to save the lost, those who were estranged from God. And we are all lost without God – lost without hope, lost without a future.
It is therefore fitting that we celebrate and rejoice during the Christmas Season because God’s gift means that death no longer has any real power over us, and that our lives have been redeemed.
Saint Anthony of Padua, Patron Saint of the lost, pray for us~
