Main news for 24 December 2025

Most often, the mystery of Christmas is connected for us with a pleasant festive mood. In general, news of the birth of a child in the family of acquaintances, people not too close to us, is usually accompanied by a feeling of tenderness and joy. But the birth of a child in one's own family is often connected with anxious, and not always positive, expectation: we do not know for certain how the child is spending those nine months, whether he is healthy, whether everything is normal, how the birth will go, or whether the doctors will let us down. And with the birth of a child, our anxiety and worry do not weaken; on the contrary, they grow day by day. Our children make us feel the breath of death always and everywhere.

The celebration of Christmas leads to the realization of an equally terrifying fact: God came into the world to give us the Kingdom, but this Kingdom, which He possesses, can be handed over to us only through a testament. We refused the possibility of living in the Kingdom, choosing not life and good, but death and evil. And then He was born, became tiny and defenseless, entrusting Himself to human beings completely and without reserve. He was born into the world, and that means He takes upon Himself the whole weight of death. He wants to bring us into the Kingdom, and one path remained for Him: to bequeath to us what belongs to Him.