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4th Sunday in Advent - 23rd December 2007
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But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!" So through God you are no longer a slave but a son, and if son then an heir.
Galations 4: 4-7

I thank you, O Father of my being,
that I have been accepted into the family of God
because Jesus Christ was born of a woman
and born under the slavery of the law.
I thank you that I am now free of that law,
and that in freedom I can reach out to you with love.
Assist me to make this freedom more real.
May I use this freedom, this power of creation,
to assist and help others to find this wonderful experience
and beingness,
In the precious name of Christ I pray,
So shall it be. *

The Birth

 

The 4th candle and 4th panel are added this Sunday.

Madonna with Sleeping Child - 1465-1470 by Andrea Mantegna.

 

 

A Transforming Christmas

You have to let the miracle happen in you
You have to let it happen.
Spirituality doesn't come about
simply by waiting.
Transformation,
the change from mere weak humanity into gods,
happens by choice -
a deliberate determinative choice
that says, "Yes, I will."

Christmas night asks you to make that choice
to become a god,
to become a light, as Christ was the light.
Then the vision of the initiates
thousands of years ago in their caves
will become literally true
and the world will shine
with souls who are alight with love,
with freedom, with strength and with grace.

I wish you a transforming Christmas
in which not one of you remains untouched -
not by me but by the Christ,
by the power and emanation of the angels.

I wish you a wondrous Christmas,
a Christmas of silence and quietness,
a Christmas that will wash away
your bitterness and disappointments,
a Christmas that will open your heart
like a flower
and enable you to love.

That Christmas I wish you, and nothing else.

Rev Mario in Choosing Transformation *

 

  • The Song of the Angels - 4th Sunday in Advent
    The lifting of the human spirit, the enlarging of our borders, freedom from the limitations of our present minds, the recovery of relationship with the whole of the universe, these things are what real life is about.
    An address for the Cosmic Mass 23th December 2007 Rev Max
     Isaiah 9: 2, 6-7 & Luke 2: 8-14

 

*Works from Rev Mario Schoenmaker
Used with permission
Antoinette Schoenmaker ©
   


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