For who in the World will both mourn and rejoice at once and for the same reason? For either joy will be overcome by mourning or mourning will be cast out by joy so that it is only in these our Christian mysteries that we can rejoice and mourn at once for the same reason. Beloved, as the World sees, this is to behave in a strange fashion. It was in this same night that has just passed, that a multitude of the heavenly host appeared before the shepherds at Bethlehem, saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men” at this same time of all the year that we celebrate at once the Birth of Our Lord and His Passion and Death upon the Cross. So that at the same moment we rejoice in His coming for the salvation of men, and offer again to God His Body and Blood in sacrifice, oblation, and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world. For whenever Mass is said, we re-enact the Passion and Death of Our Lord and on this Christmas Day we do this in celebration of His Birth. I wish only that you should ponder and meditate on the deep meaning and mystery of our masses of Christmas Day. Amen.ĭear children of God, my sermon this morning will be a very short one. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” The fourteenth verse of the second chapter of the Gospel according to Saint Luke. The Archbishop preaches in the Cathedral on Christmas morning, 1170.
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