Christmas greetings from the Apostolic Visitor with a special role for the parish of Medjugorje, Archbishop Aldo Cavalli

This Christmas we need to ask ourselves a great question that concerns God, concerns us, concerns Jesus, concerns Mary: Why did God become one of us? Why did God want to become a man like us? The answer is given to us by the Gospel, God's revelation.

Do you know why God wanted to become one of us? John, the Gospel according to John, in the third chapter, writes: God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16)

God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son. God became one of us. God became a man like us, out of love, only out of love. Out of love for all of us, and the Son of God gave his life out of love, a life that began in Bethlehem. He gave it completely in the service of all of us.

He lived until he was 30 like all of us. He worked as a carpenter, he worked to support himself. And here is the life of God. And then he began to preach that at a certain moment he would give his life for us, to the point of death on the cross, to completely empty himself for us, to serve us as a God of love for each of us.

Christmas, if I want to spend it well, I need to do the same, I need to love. To love means to serve. To love means to cooperate with the Lord in order to achieve peace, peace where we are.

To love means to cooperate, and here we see Mary as an example of Christmas, when she said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord. Handmaid means to cooperate with the Lord, I am at the service of the Lord for my brothers and sisters of the whole world.

To love and serve, to serve and cooperate. If I want to spend Christmas well, remember, do as the Lord does: love, love and serve, love and cooperate.

Merry Christmas to everyone.

Archbishop Aldo Cavalli