REFLECTION
FROM THE DESK OF THE PASTOR
Today is the fourth Sunday
of Advent and few days from now; we are going to celebrate the birthday
anniversary of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our Gospel today is about St. Joseph who
has a plan to part ways with Mary secretly even if he is already betrothed to
her, when he finds out that Mary is pregnant. Joseph was told that Mary was to
bear a child, that the child had been begotten by the Holy Spirit and He must
be called the child by the name Jesus. Jesus is the Greek form of the Jewish
name Joshua and Joshua means Jehovah is salvation. Many of us would think too
that Christ is the family name of Jesus. Strictly speaking it is not and it is
not a name but a title. Christ means “Anointed One” or “Messiah”, the liberator
whom God had promised to send to the Jews and for whose coming they all longed.
Already, Joseph is not afraid to take Mary as his wife. He is afraid that he
could be the foster father of Jesus and to accept Him as his son. Since he
knows who Jesus is and to be his foster father entails a very personal and
intimate relationship with Him. He is afraid of the challenges and demands that
relationship might require of Him. It is
the same with us. We want to be blessed with God and yet we are afraid of the
demands that the blessings require of us.
You know fear can be a dangerous enemy in us. We must not allow it to
ruin our lives. Overcome it. But above all trust in God and do His will because
God has a message in each one of us .
