Christmas With Fr. Robert Barron
December 25, 2009I’ve never forgotten this little presentation Fr. Robert Barron made. Although one has heard the story from Luke so many times (as recently as today) this is the only one that truly made me understand what was going on: suddenly the swaddling clothes, the story of the census and who Caesar Augustus really was — I never quite put it all together. But it’s these details that give this story its meaning. Somehow I got lost in the tinsel of the baby Jesus for too many years.
Now the Christ is in Christmas for me which means that I call it Advent and the most important thing I do is attend Mass because that is where my home and my family are now.
Here’s the telling of the story that so impressed me:
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