25/12/2025
Pope Leo XIV: Homily on Christmas Eve
"The people who walked in the darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shined" (Is 9:2).
Pope Leo begins his homily by describing the situastion of all humaniy since thousand years ago trying to read their future in the havens.
Pope Leo said, "Dear brohers and sisters,
For millennial, across the earth, people have gazed up at the sky, giving names to the silent stars, and seeong images therein.
In the imaginative yearning, they tried to read the future in the heavens, seeking on high for a truth that was absent below amidst their homes.
Yes, as it grasping in the dark, they remined lost, confounded by their owm oracles.
In this night, however, "The people who walked in the darkness have seen the great light; those who dwelt in a land of a deep darkness, on them has light shined" (Is 9:2).
Pope continied, saying, "Behold the start that astonishes the world, a spark newly lit and blezing with life: "To you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is the Messiah, the Lord" (Luk 2:11)."
"He who gives his life for us and lives among us, illuminates the night with his light of salvation.
(Therefore) there is no darkness that this star does not illumine, for by its light all humanity beholds the dawn of new and eternal life" Pope Leo added.
It is Jesus, the Word made flesh.
It is the birth of Jesus, Immanuel.
In him, God gives us nothing less than his very self, in order to "redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own" (Titus 2:14).
(National Catholic Register, Dec. 24, 2025)
