‘Nativity,’ Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre (1714–1789) (photo: Public domain)
COMMENTARY: The Nativity of the Lord illuminates our lives.
By John Grondelski, CNSNews,
John M. Grondelski (Ph.D., Fordham) is former associate dean of the School of Theology, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey. He is especially interested in moral theology and the thought of John Paul II. …
What happened on Christmas night more than 2,000 years ago fundamentally and irrevocably changed the path of humanity.
“When peaceful stillness lay all over and the night was half spent, your Almighty Word, O Lord, descended from heaven’s royal throne” (Wisdom 18:14-15).
This night, God and man become one, God and man are reconciled, and God and man begin a new path in history. That is the profoundly Good News of Christianity, not just this night, but every day and every night for the past more than 2,000 years. …