A Christmas Message From Archbishop McCarrick The following is a Christmas message from the Most Rev. Theodore E. McCarrick, Archbishop of Newark, to the people of the Archdiocese of Newark: "As Christmas was coming this year, I found myself still in Rome at the Synod For America. As the great Nativity Crib was being reassembled in St. Peter's Square and the Lights of the Eternal City took on a Christmas glow, I thought more and more of home and how good it would be to share this great feast with all of you in Newark. "That nostalgic longing gives way to a deeper theological truth. Our Lord Jesus came to be with us at Christmas. As Saint Paul writes to the Philippians, He emptied Himself to be born in our likeness, taking on our human nature so that He could share our lives, our world, our joys and our pains. As I rejoiced to look forward to being home for the great celebration of His birth, I realized again not only that it is so great a gift to be at home at Christmas, but it is the Lord Whose coming to our home makes each one of us - whatever race or nationality or place in society - brothers and sisters in the family home of a loving God! "Merry Christmas! May the grace of being at home with God stay with you all the New Year through."
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