Christmas doesn't really feel like Christmas.. it's getting more so every year. maybe we're desensitised by the commercial concept of Christmas: putting up lights, christmas trees, giving presents.. it's no longer about celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. some people don't even bother going to Christmas mass.

I went for midnight mass at novena church and i thought fr. glenn's sermon was really apt. he asked us why we celebrate Christmas, and talked about sharing, giving presents as being sweet but not the exact reason why. he said, "there is nothing sweet about baby Jesus lying in a manger... beneath that facade there is a passion...". a passion to love us, this yearning to be with us, even though we are sinners, living our tattered lives. it hit me then that though so many of us are Catholics, how many people are actually trying or are leading the Christian way of life? we skip mass, behave selfishly, do inconsiderate things even in church, hardly pray.. yet, God is with us. God's love is the greatest of all, because regardless of what we do or fail to do, He still loves us.

this coming new year, one of my resolutions has got to be "try to be a better person".