MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! THE SAVIOR IS BORN!!!

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 Sorry I am a day late...this was given on Dec 24 at 3:15pm Mass 

A couple of weeks ago, we had our annual Ho Ho Breakfast with Santa.  Children were encouraged to make little wishes for Christmas in one area of the gymnasium.  Some drew pictures in crayon, some wished for hope, love, peace, for Jesus to have a good life, and several other average wishes.  However, the best one was “a pug, a squishmallo, gold and silver.”

Sometimes it is still difficult to grasp even for a priest.  And maybe that is the way it should be – difficult to grasp.  The mystery of the Incarnation is like no other mystery – THE SON OF GOD TRANSCENDS TIME AND SPACE TO TAKE ON HUMAN FLESH, RECEIVED FROM HIS MOTHER.  I recently was told by someone that Jesus’ DNA is still in the world.  That would be interesting to see under a microscope, don’t you think?  Remember your biology classes in high school?  Male chromosomes and female chromosomes, right?  Put them together in a new being and it creates a whole different set of chromosomes from the two sets.

Jesus’ DNA had to be most interesting.  After all, what does the Father’s DNA look like?  Now that sounds like a nonsense question; however, let’s just think about something that still also ought to blow our minds – Eucharistic miracles.  You have heard it talked about before that there have been several times in history that the consecrated bread – the Eucharist, JESUS himself – has, in fact, bled.  Yes, real blood coming forth from a host.  Scientists are brought in to verify that the blood IS genuine and tests are run to rule out any individuals that may have been near at the time so that a hoax could not be said.

Wouldn’t you just be a tad curious to see if the blood type matches one of the other miracles?  See if the DNA set matches?

While the DNA only matters as much as the stories of Jesus’ full childhood like we might have heard in the Gospel of St. Thomas or the Gospel of St. Peter – in other words, not important to our faith – it’s an interesting question that maybe will in fact be looked at in the future.

Whatever the genetic make-up of those instances of Eucharistic miracles might be, what matters to us is that God made good on His promise and fulfilled the prophecies.  But now what?  What difference does Jesus’ birth make?

The point is that as much as we understand what being human is about, now Jesus does too.  And while Jesus grows up, he is going to experience the same things in life we do.  He will be hungry, thirsty, hot, cold, pain, and more.  But He teaches us what being the perfect human being looks like.

Merry Christmas!!!

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