A Homily for the Second Sunday of Christmas
Texts: Jeremiah 31:7-14; Ephesians 1:3-14: St. John 1:1-18
Grace to you and peace from God our Heavenly Father and Christ Jesus our Lord, the Incarnate Word. Amen.
From before time and space, Christ is. The Only-Begotten Son of God is the One Through Whom All Things Are Made. Christ is the Word spoken by God to create the entire cosmos. And now, in the fullness of time, this same Word has descended from the right hand of the Father to become one of us.
The entirety of the Incarnation defies our attempt to understand it – that the Jesus is fully God and fully human? That the Son and the Father are both fully and entirely God – not two gods or different aspects of one God but two persons of a Blessed Trinity? That God would step down from the heavenly throne to become one of us? That this God, having already condescended to become human, would choose to live not in a palace in the heart of a major empire but as a common laborer among a conquered people?
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