Happy Christmas, brothers and sisters. May the peace and blessings of Our Lord be with you and your loved ones on this most holy and sacred of days – the day when we celebrate the Incarnation of Jesus Christ.

Before I continue, I must apologise to my readers for the lack of poasting for the last few days. This is partly due to the fact that I am on vacation – as I said before – and MOSTLY due to the fact that, starting on Monday evening, I came down with a horrible case of food poisoning. As is so stereo-typically the way of such things, it would appear that my nemesis was, of all things, a dodgy kebab. After having… uh… EXPELLED unspeakable things in unprintable ways, and after nearly 2 days of basically complete bed rest, I am feeling almost back to normal.

Seeing as I have a little time – I had to miss Midnight Mass last night, for instance – may I say that I am deeply grateful to you all for your continued readership and patronage of this website. Special thanks go to LRFotS and Telegram channel subscriber GW, for his extremely generous contribution of 5 coffees for Christmas.

As I have stated many times, I maintain this site for myself, not for anyone else, but I have been consistently and pleasantly surprised and humbled by the fact that so many people – most of whom I do not know in person – find value and use from my writing and work. I am thankful for all of you who write in, comment, and respond to what I poast.

However, today is not about me. It is about Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Saviour, the visible image of the invisible God. He is God made flesh, who humbled Himself to our level, and who lived the trials, tribulations, and temptations of an ordinary man. He became as one of us, so that God could truly understand and experience what it means to be merely a human.

And, at the appropriate time, He died for us, to reconcile us with the God we rejected.

It is the greatest story ever told, the most magnificent epic of all time. And it is all the more extraordinary because it is TRUE. This is not one of those tall tales and folk legends, or creation myths indulged in by other religions. There is no serious doubt, even among atheist scholars, that a man named Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem, travelled throughout Israel performing amazing deeds, and died by crucifixion. Where they disagree with us, of course, is in their view that the Christ was merely a man.

We do not harbour doubts on the subject, of course, because many of us have been touched by His presence in our lives. And we have no reason to believe that Jesus was anything other than what He himself said He was – the Son, sent by the Father, to save and redeem Mankind.

He did precisely that, by reconciling us with God, through His incarnation and eventual sacrifice.

It is vitally important for all of us to remember these facts on this day and night. While you are feasting with your loved ones tonight, remember that the point of Christmas is not carolling, or tree decorations, or eating to the point of exploding, or giving presents, or a big fat jolly chap dressed in red descending down chimneys.

That is not the point of Christmas. Nor is it the point of Christianity.

The real point of Christianity, as Our Beloved and Dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) Voxemort the Most Malevolent and Terrible, once said, is of God becoming Man in the midst of blood and animal shit, to save and redeem us from the absolutely deserved destruction that is our destiny – and deservedly so.

Christmas, in other words, is about a God who loves us all so much that He became one of us, and was born into the world as a squalling, helpless, tiny little baby – who grew up to become the greatest superhero of all time.

Remember this as you sit with your family and friends tonight. Remember that it is Jesus who is our role model and teacher. And remember how and why He accomplished all those things.

And with that, let me leave you with some music and memes – the latter from LRFotS RobertW: