Real reason for Christmas has moral dimensions

Submitted on November 30, 2010
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Joseph Kenny | jkenny@stlouisreview.com
Advent, a season of joyful expectation before Christmas, begins Nov. 28 this year. The Advent wreath, with a candle marking each week of the season, is a traditional symbol of the liturgical period.
Advent, a season of joyful expectation before Christmas, begins Nov. 28 this year. The Advent wreath, with a candle marking each week of the season, is a traditional symbol of the liturgical period.
CNS photo illustration/Bob Roller
Jesus was born. So what? We all know the birth of Christ means retailers are happy that their stores are packed in November and December. But the real reason for Christmas, the Incarnation — the Son of God being conceived in the womb of Mary as true God and true man — had moral and ethical dimensions and consequences for those who inhabit the world. Redemptorist Father Donnell Kirchner, who has a degree in moral theology at the Alphonsian Academia in Rome and taught for many years in Brazil, lists nine of these differences that resulted from Christ’s birth.

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