Once again at Christmas Our Blessed Lady and St Joseph invite us to meet their child: God’s Son, the infant Saviour and Prince of Peace. But, all too sadly, peace in so many parts of our world is fractured.
For too many people Christmas is not a season of good will. Among the many suffering from warfare and violence, we think of our brothers and sisters in the Holy Land and in Ukraine facing Christmas this year against the backdrop of war.
How desperately we need to hear the angels’ message of peace and put it into practice. Each time we pause before the Crib, something should change within us. Love must begin to increase. Mercy must being to expand. Peace must begin to reign. Otherwise, have we really received anything of the Good News of Christmas joy?
