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From a sermon by Saint Leo the Great, pope



The Birth of the Lord is the birthplace of peace
Childhood, that the Son of God did not consider it unworthy of his majesty, was developed with increasing age in the full maturity of man. Of course, which took the triumph of the Passion and Resurrection, all the lowering of the past that he agreed for us, however, the party today renews for us the beginning of the holy Jesus, born of the Virgin Mary. And as we celebrate in worship the birth of our Savior, we are celebrating our beginning: the birth of Christ marks the beginning of the Christian people, the birthplace of the Head is the birthday of the Corps.
Although all the children of the Church receive the call in each moment and are distributed over time, even all together, born from the baptismal font, they are generated with Christ in this birth, as have been crucified with Christ in his passion, raised in the resurrection, ascension to the Father placed.
Every believer that anywhere in the world is being reborn in Christ, breaks ties with original sin and becomes a man again with a second birth. I no longer belongs to the descendants of the father after the flesh, but the generation of the Savior who became man that we might become children of God if he does not come down to us in this lowering of the birth, no one with its own merits could be up to him.
The size of the gift received an estimate requires us worthy of his glory. The blessed Apostle teaches us: "We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God to know all that God has given us "(2 Cor 12). The only way to honor him with dignity is to offer the same gift he received.
Now, in honor of this feast, what we find most appropriate, of all the gifts of God, if not peace, that peace was proclaimed the first time since the birth song of the angels of the Lord? Peace generates the children of God, nourished by love, created the union, it is the blessed rest, home of eternity. His own task and his particular benefit is to unite those who separates God from the world of evil.
What therefore "not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but were created by God" (Jn 1, 13), offering to the Father hearts of these children together in peace. All members of the adoptive family to meet God in Christ, the firstborn of the new creation, which was not to do his will, but of those who had left.
For the Father in his goodness he adopted as his heirs free those who felt they were not divided by discord and mutual incompatibility, but those who truly lived and loved their mutual brotherly union. In fact, those who have been molded in a single model should have a common spirit of homogeneity. The Birth of the Lord is the birthplace of peace. He says the Apostle: "He is our peace, of two peoples that he has made only one" (Eph 2, 14), because whether Jews or Gentiles, "Through him we have access to the Father by one Spirit" (Eph 2, 18).