Merry Christmas! Why We Celebrate......?

In the first place was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was completely God. All things were made by Him, and separated from Him not one thing was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of humanity.

The Word progressed toward becoming fragile living creature and stayed among us. We saw His magnificence the brilliance of the unparalleled, brimming with effortlessness and truth, who originated from the Father . . .

Presently a pronouncement went out from Caesar Augustus to enroll all the realm for assessments. Everybody went to his own town to be enrolled.

So Joseph additionally went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, since he was of the house and family line of David. He went to be enrolled with Mary, who was guaranteed in marriage to him, and who was anticipating a tyke. While they were there, the time wanted her to convey her tyke. What's more, she brought forth her first-conceived child and enclosed him by pieces of fabric and laid him in a trough, in light of the fact that there was the wrong spot for them in the motel.

There were shepherds close-by out in the field, keeping protect over their run by night. A heavenly attendant of the Lord appeared to them, and the wonder of the Lord shone around them, and they were totally scared. However, the blessed messenger said to them, "Don't be apprehensive; listen cautiously, for I declare to you uplifting news that conveys extraordinary bliss to every one of the general population: Today your Savior is conceived in the city of David. He is Christ the Lord.

"This will be a sign* for you: you will discover an infant enveloped by segments of fabric and lying in a trough." Suddenly a large number of the great host showed up with the holy messenger, applauding God and saying, "Brilliance to God in the most noteworthy, and on earth harmony among individuals with whom he is satisfied!"

At the point when the holy messengers left them and returned to paradise, the shepherds said to each other, "Let us head toward Bethlehem and see this thing that has occurred, that the Lord has made known to us."

So they rushed off and found Mary and Joseph, and found the child lying in a trough. When they saw him, they related what they had been told about this youngster, and all were dumbfounded at what the shepherds said. (In any case, Mary prized up every one of these words, contemplating in her heart what they may mean). So the shepherds returned, extolling and commending God for all they had heard and seen; everything was similarly as they had been told.

Toward the finish of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name given by the holy messenger before he was imagined in the belly.

Presently when the time wanted their decontamination as indicated by the law of Moses, Joseph and Mary brought the child (Jesus), up to Jerusalem to introduce him to the Lord, (similarly as it is written in the law of the Lord, 'Each firstborn male will be separate to the Lord'), and to offer a forfeit as per what is determined in the law of the Lord, a couple of birds or two youthful pigeons.

There was in Jerusalem a man named Simeon who was upright and ardent, searching for the reclamation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him. It had been uncovered to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not kick the bucket before he had seen the Lord's guaranteed Messiah.

So coordinated by the Spirit, Simeon came into the sanctuary courts, and when the guardians acquired the kid Jesus to improve the situation him what was standard as per the law, Simeon took the infant in his arms and favored God, saying, "Presently, Lord, you have stayed faithful to your commitment, allow your hireling to leave in harmony. With my very own eyes I have seen your salvation that you have arranged within the sight all things considered: a light to uncover your will to the Gentiles, and convey brilliance to your kin Israel."

Joseph and Mary were astonished at information exchanged about the child. At that point Simeon favored them and said to his mom Mary, "Listen cautiously: this tyke is bound to be the reason for the falling and ascending of numerous in Israel and to be an indication that will be rejected. Without a doubt, because of him the contemplations of numerous hearts will be uncovered and a sword will pierce your very own spirit too!"

There was additionally a prophetess, Anna the little girl of Phanuel, of the clan of Asher. She was exceptionally old, having been hitched to her significant other for a long time until his passing. She had lived as a widow from that point forward for eighty-four years. She never left the sanctuary, adoring with fasting and supplication night and day. Right then and there, she came up to Joseph and Mary, and started to offer gratitude to God and to talk about the youngster to all who were sitting tight for the reclamation of Jerusalem.

After Jesus was conceived in Bethlehem in Judea, in the season of King Herod, shrewd men from the East came to Jerusalem saying, "Where is the person who is conceived lord of the Jews? For we saw his star when it climbed and have come to adore him."

When King Herod heard this he was frightened, and all Jerusalem with him. Subsequent to collecting all the central ministers and specialists in the law he asked them where the Christ was to be conceived. "In Bethlehem of Judea, they stated, "for it is composed along these lines by the prophet: "And you, Bethlehem, are not the slightest bit minimum among the leaders of Judah, for out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my kin Israel."

At that point Herod secretly called the insightful men and decided from them when the star had showed up. He sent them to Bethlehem and stated, "Go and search cautiously for the youngster. When you discover him, advise me with the goal that I can go and revere him also."

In the wake of tuning in to the lord they left, and indeed the star they saw when it rose drove them until the point that it ceased over where the youngster was.

When they saw the star they yelled euphorically. As they came into the house and saw the youngster with Mary his mom, they bowed down and loved him. They opened their fortune boxes and gave him blessings of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. In the wake of being cautioned in a fantasy not to come back to Herod, they returned by another course to their own nation.

Savvy men still look for him.

Cheerful Christmas!