meditation today: The Christmas of the Lord is the birthplace of peace

Childhood, which the Son of God did not consider unworthy of his majesty, developed with the growth of age in the full maturity of man. Of course, once the triumph of passion and resurrection has taken place, all the lowering accepted by him for us belongs to the past: however, today's feast renews for us the sacred beginnings of Jesus, born of the Virgin Mary. And while we celebrate the birth of our Savior in adoration, we find ourselves celebrating our beginning: the birth of Christ marks the beginning of the Christian people; the birthplace of the chief is the birthplace of the body.
Although all the children of the Church receive the call each in its moment and are distributed over time, even all together, born from the baptismal font, are generated with Christ in this nativity, just as with Christ they were crucified in the passion, raised in the resurrection, placed at the right hand of the Father in ascension.
Every believer, who in any part of the world is regenerated in Christ, breaks ties with the guilt of origin and becomes a new man with a second birth. It no longer belongs to the descent of the father according to the flesh, but to the generation of the Savior who became the son of man so that we could become children of God. If he did not come down to us in this lowering of birth, no one with his own merits could go up to him.
The greatness of the gift received requires an esteem worthy of its splendor from us. The blessed Apostle teaches us: We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who comes from God to know all that God has given us (cf. 1 Cor 2,12:XNUMX). The only way to honor him worthily is to offer him the gift himself received from him.
Now, to honor this feast, what can we find more suitable, among all the gifts of God, if not peace, that peace, which was first announced by the song of the angels at the birth of the Lord? Peace generates the children of God, nourishes love, creates union; it is the rest of the blessed, the abode of eternity. Its own task and its particular benefit is to unite God who separates it from the world of evil.
Therefore, those who are not born of blood or of the will of man or of the will of man, but born of God (cf. Jn 1,13:2,14), offer the Father their hearts of children united in peace. All members of God's adoptive family meet in Christ, the firstborn of the new creation, who came to do not his will, but that of the one who sent him. In fact, in his gratuitous goodness the Father adopted as his heirs not those who felt divided by mutual discord and incompatibility, but those who sincerely lived and loved their mutual brotherly union. In fact, those who have been molded according to a single model must have a common homogeneity of spirit. The Christmas of the Lord is the birthplace of peace. The Apostle says it: He is our peace, he who made only one of two peoples (cf. Eph 2,18:XNUMX), because, both Jews and pagans, "through him we can present ourselves to the Father in one Spirit »(Eph XNUMX:XNUMX).