After the long preparation and waiting that we experience in Advent, we have finally arrived at the Christmas Vigil Mass. This evening we gather together as one community and one Church to celebrate the moment of the great appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world, when He was born of His Mother Mary in Bethlehem, the city of David more than two millennia ago. Tonight is the most beautiful night because light and hope are restored to all of us who live in a world full of darkness and sin. This is the night when the long-awaited salvation finally comes, when God reveals before us His greatest and eternal love, when He shows His love for us which is embodied in the flesh, in Christ Jesus, the Son of Man and the Son of Man. God, the Divine Word incarnate, is fully God and fully human. Through Him, God's love becomes very real, and He becomes real, approachable and reachable to us. The Lord reassured all His people when He told them of ...