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December 24, 2025Merry Christmas!
The shopping is done, the presents are wrapped, plans for dinner and the other celebrations are in place and all is ready for the festive season.
At St. Benedict parish we are all grateful for the faith-filled enthusiasm that each member, each family brings to our community. Our shared commitment to handing-on the faith, celebrating the Sacraments, and our care for the disenfranchised, the marginalized, and the suffering members of our community is a great witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Christmas is a time to reflect on the gifts that we have received -- not those adorned with paper and tinsel -- but rather those bestowed upon us by our Heavenly Father who loves us and intends our salvation.
Today we celebrate Emmanuel -- God with us -- in the Incarnation of the Word of God, our Savior Jesus Christ. Whether your faith is strong and vibrant, warm, tepid, or just getting jump-started, Christmas comes with a promise of a God who seeks a relationship with us so strongly that he became like us “in all things but sin,” so that we might share in eternal life with him.
May this Christmas Day be a time to renew your family ties, to perhaps seek out those from whom you might be estranged, and to strengthen the bonds of love that support and sustain us each day. Allow this day to be one where you are conscious of the primary relationship in our lives, Jesus Christ, whose birth we today commemorate.
On behalf of Father Adam Midor (parochial vicar) our weekend associates Monsignor Jack Carroll and Father Tony Carotenuto; Deacons Ray Pelkowski, John Clymore, Steven Scott, Paul Remick, and Anthony Cullen; principal Nicholas Cammarano and vice-principal Megan Gallagher, the entire parish and school community at St. Benedict extends to you the blessings and best wishes of this Christmas Season. May God, in his mercy, fill our hearts with the knowledge and love of him and the great works he has done on our behalf.
Merry Christmas,
Father Garry