Nativity: Mystical Paradox
At the end of 2008, I was invited to present a address at the carol’s night at a local parish. Because of the length of the address that I was asked to do (it was approaching 15 minutes), I have divided the address, entitled Nativity as Mystical Paradox: downplayed, peripheralised…ever-rejuvenated, into four sections, each on different aspects of the Nativity.
The sheer contradiction of the birth of God, and how we have become desensitised to this inherently confronting miracle.
The paradoxes and mystery involved in the birth of Christ, and how we must accept how some things are beyond us and worship the mystery.
How peripherals can take over the Feast and that we must remember the reason for the season, and about how we are able to participate in the Birth, now, because of the perpetual now.
How we must put Christmas back into Christ, and how we can Christianise the peripherals by remembering (even giving anew) the reasons behind the peripherals.
