Father Giuseppe: "For us a child is born" (Isaiah 9:6)

Christmas helps us to understand why God confounded the people of Babel and did not allow them to build the tower that would have reached heaven: because He himself wanted to “descend” to us and so there was no need for us to “ascend” to him. In the fullness of time, and having nothing to do with our wishes and desires, He came and reached us and became one of us. This is the night of the meeting-clash of the world’s mentality (that wants to ascend to God) and Gods mentality (that wants to descend and to be the Emmanuel, which means “God with us”. There will always be opposition between the two mentalities, until Babel disappears from the heart of man and from all mankind. Only then will God be “all in all”. (1 Corinthians 15:28).