{"id":27480,"date":"2025-12-24T20:33:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T01:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssvmusa.org\/?p=27480"},"modified":"2025-12-31T21:24:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:24:42","slug":"christmas2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssvmusa.org\/index.php\/2025\/12\/24\/christmas2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"27480\" class=\"elementor elementor-27480\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-62ff4c39 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"62ff4c39\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1562aa03\" data-id=\"1562aa03\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-769c5102 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"769c5102\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"717\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ssvmusa.org\/1s2s3v5m6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Nativity-Federico-Barocci-Public-domain-via-Wikimedia-Commons-cropped.jpg?fit=800%2C717&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-27530\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ssvmusa.org\/1s2s3v5m6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Nativity-Federico-Barocci-Public-domain-via-Wikimedia-Commons-cropped.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ssvmusa.org\/1s2s3v5m6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Nativity-Federico-Barocci-Public-domain-via-Wikimedia-Commons-cropped.jpg?resize=300%2C269&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ssvmusa.org\/1s2s3v5m6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Nativity-Federico-Barocci-Public-domain-via-Wikimedia-Commons-cropped.jpg?resize=768%2C688&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">The Nativity, Federico Barocci (1597) Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1096500f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1096500f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3248961f\" data-id=\"3248961f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7de77a7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7de77a7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Christ is born!<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7e723a5c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7e723a5c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cChrist, the Redeemer of the world, is the one who penetrated in a unique unrepeatable way into the mystery of man and entered his \u2018heart\u2019. Rightly therefore does the Second Vatican Council teach: \u2018The truth is that only in the mystery of the Incarnate Word does the mystery of man take on light. For Adam, the first man, was a type of him who was to come\u00a0<i>(Rom 5:14),\u00a0<\/i>Christ the Lord. Christ the new Adam, in the very revelation of the mystery of the Father and of his love,\u00a0<i>fully reveals man to himself\u00a0<\/i>and brings to light his most high calling\u2019. And the Council continues: &#8220;He who is the &#8216;image of the invisible God&#8217; <i>(Col<\/i>\u00a01:15), is himself the perfect man who has restored in the children of Adam that likeness to God which had been disfigured ever since the first sin. Human nature, by the very fact that it was assumed, not absorbed, in him, has been raised in us also to a dignity beyond compare. For, by his Incarnation, he, the son of God,\u00a0<i>in a certain way united himself with each man.\u00a0<\/i>He worked with human hands, he thought with a human mind. He acted with a human will, and with a human heart he loved. Born of the Virgin Mary, he has truly been made one of us, like to us in all things except sin, he, the Redeemer of man.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2013 St. John Paul II, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/john-paul-ii\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_jp-ii_enc_04031979_redemptor-hominis.html\"><i>Redemptoris Hominis <\/i><\/a>(1979), 8.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nativity, Federico Barocci (1597) Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Christ is born! \u201cChrist, the Redeemer of the world, is the one who penetrated in a unique unrepeatable way into the mystery of man and entered his \u2018heart\u2019. 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