Christmas is the feast and memory of humanity - It is when God fulfilled His Desire to be with us. In Christmas, the feast of humanity, the God of Christians revealed the fulfillment of His Desire to be with humanity. In the cave where Jesus was born, Man in the darkness of "Plato's cave" was liberated. Or Man was restored to the life in God according to St. Athanasius of Alexandria (De incarnatione Verbi Dei).God fulfilled His Desire to be with humanity in the incarnation of His Word. In St. John the Apostle "Whoever is without love does not know God; for God is love" (1 John 4:8); and "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" (John 1: 1).
Seen from the universe (or multiverses), all galaxies and planets are the work of Christ as they move away from each other, but are still kept in attraction according to quantum fluctuations since the Big Bang. Electrons and subparticles show such effect when they communicate at many miles away from each other. One of the two scientific theories that attempt to unify everything is the Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG). John Polkinghorne, retired professor of mathematical physics at Cambridge University, wrote, in one of his latest books: Quantum Physics and Theology in 2008, about relationship as science is attempting to discover it at the subnuclear level: “Quantum theory brought to light a remarkable form of entanglement between subatomic particles that have once interacted with each other (the so-called EPR effect), which implies that they remain effectively a single system however far they may subsequently separate spatially- a counterintuitive togetherness-in-separation that has been abundantly confirmed experimentally as a property of nature. The physical world looks more and more like a universe that would be the fitting creation of the trinitarian God, the One whose deepest reality is relational.” (Cf. John Polkinghorne, 2008, "Quantum Physics and Theology: An Unexpected Kinship" Published by Yale University Press). Dr. Stephen Barr has written extensively on the relationship of quantum physics and theology (See, for example, his article in First Things here).
Regardless of advances in technology, Christ is the Lord of the entire existing things!
In Christmas, the feast of humanity, the God of Christians revealed the fulfillment of His Desire to be with humanity.
In his Epistle to the Philippians, St. Paul describes Christ "Though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped, [but] rather emptied himself taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness..."(Philippians 2: 6-7).
It is, therefore, fitting that we praise the God of Christians, Three Persons in One, as He reveals Himself throughout the ages to His creation. It was the Virgin Mary who delivered him to the world. It was St. Joseph who cared for Jesus Christ.
In this sense too, the Holy Family is celebrated in Christmas. May the Lord help his seekers find Him by the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Joseph.
