There are three Christmas Masses: midnight, dawn and
during the day. Not only we are allowed to attend them and but we are invited
to receive Communion during these 3 Masses.
The three masses of Christmas tell us of three births
of God’s Son:
1- His birth at Bethlehem. Luke 2:1-14.
2- His birth in our hearts. Luke 2:15-20.
3- His birth in eternity (the only begotten of the
Father). John 1:1-18.
You’ll certainly guess that I might have a greater
interest in the “dawn Mass”. It is a more “interior” perspective about
Christmas. It alludes to Jesus’ birth in our hearts.
By our
Baptism, Jesus is born in our heart. As a small seed, He’ll grow in us until He
reaches the fullness of His height. That moment could be considered as a fuller
“birth of Jesus in our hearts” or, if you will, the equivalent of what the
Mystics called the “Spiritual Marriage” with Jesus. Remember what saint Paul
claimed: “it is not me who live, Christ lives in me”.
Christmas
is as well about personal spiritual life: let us look inside and watch out
Jesus in us.
Who
better than Mary can give birth to Jesus? Who can carry Him in the fullness of
His hight and bear the intensity of His Divinity? Mary only can do it. We need
both: the Son of God, offering Himself to us as the biggest and deepest gift,
and Mary, the “capacity” to handle that divine weight in us.
Let us
invite Mary in the cradle of our heart so she can come. She comes carrying
Jesus in her. She is the best “space” we can offer to God so He can come and
dwell in us.
Saint
Thérèse of the Child Jesus once said that before Communion she invites Mary to
dwell in her heart, so when she receives Jesus, the Host, He’ll think that He
is dwelling in her. To me, it looks like the best way to receive Jesus in us.
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