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This week's reading from the book of Nehemiah provides a reflection on the importance of keeping firm our religious identity and finding strength in our religious identity so we can go out into the world with confidence and grace. By keeping our strength in God we can go out into the world and Christify it.

Today we reflect on Christ, the fulfillment of Israel’s Anointed One, proclaiming his mission statement from Isaiah 61 (Luke 4:18f). The Lectionary’s parallel OT passage, Nehemiah 8, provides an insight into discovering one’s identity and purpose in Christ. It is found in the story of the People of God according to the Scriptures. Both Ezra and Jesus stand up to read the Scriptures to the People of God who, in both epochs, had lost their way, forgetting their unique identity and vocation to be a light to the world. Jesus embodies this vocation and continues it, as he sends his many-membered Body, his Church, to be “moved with compassion”, to Christify the world.

This week’s reading from the book of Nehemiah provides a reflection on the importance of keeping firm our religious identity, and finding strength in that identity, so we can go out into the world with confidence and grace. By keeping our strength in God, we can go out into the world and Christify it.

December 25, 2010 - And the Word became Flesh and dwelt among us.Its easy for us to marginalize our spiritual lives at times.But Jesus Christ, born today, held the full human experience.Essentially everything we experience Jesus had experienced, only more profoundly.May we Christify our lives and allow Christ to be born in all that we do.