Almost all the church’s great holy days emerge as a way of recalling and celebrating the biblical story. The Church’s celebrations on January 1 are no exception. The events described in this morning’s gospel are one of the things that bring us here today. We come to praise God for his many blessings and, especially in this season, for sending us his Son, who “emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men” (Philippians 2:7), and who lived as a human being, constrained by time and mortality, just as we are.
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