December 21st, 2025

Dear brothers and sisters,

“The virgin will conceive and bear a child and she will call him Emmanuel”, this is the sign of which Isaiah speaks about. This is in fact what happens in the gospel. The Virgin Mary is found with child and pregnant through the Holy Spirit. For a virgin to conceive this is something impossible and this is something difficult to understand for Joseph. Also for us at times it is difficult to understand how God works in our life. The signs he gives us and the promises he makes may seem like impossible things. The angel comes to give courage to Joseph telling him to believe and to trust God.  Also we are called to the same faith and to trust God. This child wants to be born in us as it was born in the Virgin Mary through the Holy Spirit. Jesus wants to live in us and save us from our sins, he is Emmanuel, “God with us.” This work that may seem impossible in our eyes is not impossible for God!

Peace,

Fr. Nicholas, Pastor