I noted on a past Feast of Holy Innocents that Christmas has its dark side. We often try to push that aside in strenuous efforts to be merry, but on this Holy Innocents Day of 2020, one would have to engage in significant denial to ignore it.
So I am glad to have come across Christmas sermons this year that tackle the current difficulties and the present darkness head on. Two of those come from the Principal of Pusey House, George Westhaver during their Christmas Eve Midnight Mass.
Although I could only watch the opening of his sermon live due to my preparations for a Christmas Eve service, I was able to watch it the remainder of the evening and was edified. I hoped it would be posted for all to see and read and have not been disappointed. The transcript is here.
Dr. Westhaver expounded on John 1:5 – “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
I said two sermons from Pusey House because Westhaver refers to a sermon from Dr. Pusey. That sermon, too, well addresses the relevance of Christmas to great difficulties and may be found here.
Although I hope the difficulties of my readers have not been too great, I also hope these sermons encourage you in the midst of a trying time as they have me.
Do have a blessed Holy Innocents Day and a happy Christmas season.
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