Mary's yes

Fr. Prior Simon’s homily for the Nativity of the Lord, Midnight Mass, 2025

Isaiah 9:2-7   Titus 2:11-14   Luke 2:1-14

Once upon a time there was “a land of deep darkness”. In fact, it was more like an empire spread over all over the world as we humans know it. Under the “yoke of its burden”, “the rod of the oppressor”, under “the boot of the trampling warrior”, to use the prophet Isaiah's phrases, everyone suffered. All people “walked in darkness”.