CHRISTMAS MIDNIGHT MASS @ SACRED HEART CHURCH IN EAST SACRAMENTO............

I have returned just moments ago from Midnight Mass in Sacred Heart Church here in East Sacramento, presided over by the Pastor, Reverend Monsignor Robert P. Walton, and concelebrated by yours truly. It was a solemn but simply beautiful, majestic and festive, liturgy of the Incarnation of Jesus The Christ, God's Co-Eternal Son, in His Holy Birth as the Messiah, Who is the Savior, Lord, and Light of the World.  With the Roman detailed splendor of Sacred Heart Church's architecture and building design; teamed with magnificence the Parish Choir "Schola Cantorum", under the direction of Dr. Donald Kendrick, it was the perfect place to be for me and the full church of parishioners, neighbors, and visitors, to partake of Christmas Midnight Mass.  The liturgical music was superb, from the eight Christmas songs the choir sang at 11:30 p.m., to the hymns, carols, and the Mass propers musical settings; through and to, the postlude instrumental music.  I tried in the homily which Msgr. Walton graciously invited me to deliver, to underscore the solemnity, sacredness, and simplicity, of the Christmas event and choosing to follow the Great Light sent by the Heavenly Father into the darkness of a cold winter of a waiting world that long expected the coming of a messiah.  How in Catholic-Christian Faith as Believers in and Followers of that Great and Ultimate Light, Jesus; we discover and are delivered the authentic Messiah, Savior, Lord, Prince of Prince, King of Kings, Redeemer, and the Great I Am.  Contrasting this with the confession that our fallen human nature and the selfishness of sin cause darkness, badness, evil, and violence, to beset and challenge us, even as the Light of Christ breaks into the World.  Our Catholic-Christian Discipleship and share in the Citizenship of the United States and the World requires that we selflessly and charitably in the spirit and truth of the Jesus Holy Birth as God With Us, Emmanuel - that we sensitively, compassionately, responsibly, and selflessly, to tragedies like Hurricane Sandy and the Newtown Mass Shooting, as God's Faithful and True Christmas People.  Happy Christmas People of God from Sacramento California, to around the Gobe, as you,  and me, = WE - celebrate the Coming of the Holy and Anointed One of our Heavenly Father, Jesus, Who Comes as Our Messiah to Save and Lead us to building   God Kingdom here and now for the Salvation of Souls and Healing from Sins............Christmas Peace + Prayers,   Fr.  Troy