Episode 3315: Christmas and Christ Hidden in Every Page of Scripture - Part 1

December 3, 2025

St Andrews Novena
Hail and blessed be the hour and moment
in which the Son of God was born
of the most pure Virgin Mary,
at midnight, in Bethlehem, in piercing cold.
In that hour vouchsafe, I beseech Thee, O my God,
to hear my prayer and grant my desires,
through the merits of Our Savior Jesus Christ,
and of His Blessed Mother. Amen.
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Book Recommendation of the Day
Sermons on the Incarnation and the Nativity
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
These sermons include some of the greatest meditations ever written on:
• Why God became man
• Mary’s fiat
• The humility of the Word entering the womb of a Virgin
• The supernatural meaning of Christ’s birth
St. Bernard’s writings are the foundation of much later Catholic theology.

Before we begin today’s episode, I want to pause and speak from the heart, because Advent truly is a new beginning. Not a sentimental one, not a symbolic one but a genuine spiritual reset offered to us by Holy Mother Church. Advent is the call to start again, to prepare our souls as if Christ were coming tomorrow, because in a very real sense, He is. He comes at Christmas, He comes in grace, and He will come again in glory.
And so, Advent invites us to look honestly at those things that draw us away from sanctity and to stop them, decisively, practically, and without excuses. For me and perhaps for many of us there is one sin that has become so normalized in our culture that we hardly recognize how deadly it is: the sin of gossip, or even worse, the sin of detraction.
In our modern world, gossip has become a kind of national pastime. It is played more frequently than any professional sport no stadiums needed, no uniforms required. The only equipment necessary is our mouth… and yet the damage it inflicts reaches far beyond the visible field. Gossip injures the soul of the one who speaks it, and it wounds the reputation of the one who is spoken about whether the information is true or false.
My mom used to tell me that when she visited her grandmother as a young girl, she would complain about all the kids she didn’t like and list off everything they did wrong fully expecting her grandmother to agree with her and join in. But instead, her grandmother would gently respond, “Dorothy, it takes all kinds, and there is something good in them if you look for it.”
At the time, my mom didn’t appreciate that wisdom. She wanted her grandmother to take her side, to validate her frustration, maybe even fuel it a little. But as she grew older, she realized just how wise that simple response truly was. Her grandmother refused to play the game. She didn’t participate in gossip not even under the disguise of concern, not even to make conversation. She simply lifted the conversation to a higher place.
That is the invitation Advent offers us.
This year, let’s stop playing that “sport.”
Let’s resist the temptation to speak about others’ faults. Let’s train the tongue as we would train the body for battle, because in truth, it is a spiritual battle.
And here’s the remarkable thing: when you stop playing that game, people will notice. They may ask, “What’s wrong?” or “Why are you being quiet?” or even, “You’ve changed.” And that is when you know grace is at work. You know you are stepping out of the old habits and into the new life Christ offers.
Some people might even stop calling or inviting you to certain conversations and that too is a sign that something holy is happening. As the saints remind us, when we choose virtue, God Himself rearranges our relationships, conversations, and environments to protect the seed of grace He has planted.
So as we enter this sacred season, let us begin by purifying the instrument God gave us to bless, not to wound our tongue. Let Advent be the moment we step away from sinful talk and step toward holiness, charity, and interior peace.
Because when the tongue is purified, the heart begins to change. And when the heart changes, Advent becomes exactly what the Church intends:
a new beginning.
“Christmas and Christ Hidden in Every Page of Scripture”
Yesterday as we provided another book in the Bible “Zechariah” which means we only have 2 more books of the old testament to cover. Not bad after 2 years, Ha. What was so amazing is although this book was written some 500 years before Christ it was full of those things that either happened to Christ or things Christ did and it dawned on me that As Catholics we affirm that Christmas can really be found in every page of scripture, this truth with far greater depth, because the entire structure of Sacred Tradition, the liturgical year, the writings of the Fathers, and the prayers of the Mass demonstrate that Christ is the center of all Scripture, the Alpha and the Omega, the One toward whom every prophecy, symbol, sacrifice, and covenant converges.
But our perspective differs in profound ways from non-Catholic preaching.
Where many Non-Catholics see stories that lead to Christmas, the Catholic sees a Divine Master Plan, spanning thousands of years, handed down infallibly through the Church Christ established.
Today we will explore how the Traditional Catholic worldview reveals Christmas Christ Himself on every page of Scripture, and why this matters for our salvation and our understanding of the Incarnation.
SEGMENT 1 — THE CATHOLIC PRINCIPLE: SCRIPTURE AND TRADITION TOGETHER REVEAL CHRIST
The Catholic Church teaches something very deep.
1. Christ is the Author of Scripture
St. Augustine wrote:
“The New Testament lies hidden in the Old, and the Old is unveiled in the New.”
This is not poetic it is doctrinal truth.
The pre-existent Word, the Second Person of the Trinity, is the divine Author of the very text that prophesies His coming.
2. Christmas is not merely a theme it is the revelation of the eternal plan
In the Traditional Latin Mass, the Preface of Christmas proclaims:
“Because through the mystery of the Word made flesh, a new light of Thy glory hath shone upon the eyes of our mind.”
Christmas is not sentimental.
It is the moment eternity enters time.
3. Only the Catholic Church holds the fullness of this truth
Because Christ founded the Church and entrusted Scripture to Her care, only the Church possesses the authentic interpretation of how the Old Testament reveals the Messiah.
This is why the Fathers, the liturgy, the Councils, and every Traditional Catholic catechism read Scripture as one unified revelation centered on the Incarnate Word.
SEGMENT 2 — WHERE CHRIST APPEARS ON EVERY PAGE
Let us look at just a few examples the Church Fathers emphasize:
Genesis 3:15 — The Protoevangelium
The first Gospel, the first Christmas prophecy:
“I will put enmity between thee and the Woman…”
The Fathers unanimously teach:
• The Woman = Mary
• Her Seed = Christ
Thus Christmas is already promised in Eden.
Noah’s Ark
St. Peter calls the Ark a figure of Christ and His Church.
The wooden Ark prefigures the wooden manger and the wooden Cross.
Abraham and Isaac
The father offers his only son.
The place is Moriah the future site of Calvary.
Isaac carries the wood of the sacrifice as Christ carried the Cross.
The Passover Lamb
Not a metaphor a direct typology recognized by St. Paul and St. John the Baptist:
“Behold the Lamb of God.”
The lamb must be male, unblemished, slain, eaten foreshadowing the Eucharistic Christ.

David and the Kingdom
Christ is the Son of David, inheriting the everlasting throne foretold in Scripture and celebrated in the Roman Rite during Advent.
Isaiah’s Prophecies
• “The Virgin shall conceive…”
• “A Child is born… God the Mighty…”
• “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light…”
These form the very backbone of the Traditional Advent liturgy.
All of Scripture radiates toward the crib of Bethlehem and beyond it, to Calvary and the empty Tomb.
SEGMENT 3 — THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT INTERPRETATION
A Protestant preacher may identify Old Testament images that “point to Jesus,” yet the Catholic Church teaches far more:
1. Protestants reject Tradition - Catholics see the fullness of Revelation
Without Tradition, typology becomes subjective storytelling.
With Tradition, typology becomes authoritative and divinely guided.
2. Protestants end at Bethlehem by denying the Eucharistic mystery it brought forth - Catholics understand Bethlehem in light of the Mass
The stable is not the end.
It is the beginning of the Eucharistic mystery.
The Word became flesh so that He could give His flesh.
Every Mass is Christmas extended into time.
3. Protestant theology sees a symbolic Christmas; Catholic theology sees a sacramental Incarnation
God does not merely appear. He becomes truly man, entering history through the Immaculate Virgin.
This is why Christmas is adored in Catholicism with incense, solemnity, bowing at the words “Et incarnatus est,” And He was made flesh and ancient hymns that proclaim the cosmic miracle of the Incarnation. And at every holy mass we receive that actual flesh.

SEGMENT 4 — WHY CHRISTMAS ON EVERY PAGE MATTERS FOR OUR SALVATION
If Christ appears everywhere in Scripture, then:
1. There is no salvation outside Him
The entire biblical story converges on one truth:
Christ alone saves.
2. The Old Covenant leads to the Catholic Church
All prophecies, covenants, and symbols find their fulfillment not in a book, not in private interpretation, but in the Mystical Body of Christ—the Catholic Church.
3. The Incarnation demands our response
Bethlehem is not a decoration it is a summons.
A call to repentance, conversion, and fidelity to the unchanging truth handed down through the ages.
A CALL TO RETURN TO THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST
The modern world even many modern Catholics has reduced Christmas to sentimentality.

But the Traditional Catholic faith reveals the blazing reality of the Incarnation:
God enters His creation to redeem, restore, and reign.
He was foretold on every page.
He reigns on every altar.
He will return in glory.
This Advent, let us turn not to shallow interpretations, not to modern reinventions, but to the unchanging Catholic faith, which alone reveals the fullness of the Christmas mystery.
THE EPISTLE
Romans 10:10–18
“Faith cometh by hearing.”
In today’s Epistle, St. Paul teaches a profound truth at the heart of evangelization and the Catholic mission:
“With the heart we believe unto justice; but with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”
(Romans 10:10)
Faith is not merely an internal assent.
It is not a private, interior sentiment.
It is a public confession a conviction proclaimed by word, deed, worship, and fidelity to Christ.
Three Key Reflections on the Epistle
1. Faith must be confessed.
The modern world treats religion as a private preference, something kept safely hidden.
But Scripture teaches the opposite:
Salvation is linked with public witness.
For traditional Catholics today, this is a sobering reminder:
We must not hide the truths entrusted to us about Christ, the sacraments, the moral law, or the necessity of the Catholic Church.
Advent calls us to rekindle our courage.
2. “How shall they believe… unless they hear?”
St. Paul asks a series of piercing questions:
• How shall they hear without a preacher?
• How shall they preach unless they be sent?
• How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Gospel of peace!
The Catholic Faith spreads not by programs, politics, or public relations, but through holy preaching the bold proclamation of the truth by saints, priests, parents, teachers, and faithful Catholics who dare to stand for Christ even when the world resists.
3. “Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth.”
This prophetic line from the Psalms is fulfilled in the preaching of the Apostles.
But it is renewed in every generation especially through men like St. Francis Xavier, who carried the Gospel to lands that had never heard the Holy Name of Jesus.
St. Paul tells us that the Gospel is meant to reach the ends of the earth. But today, Christ asks another question:
Has it reached the ends of your own heart?
Advent is the time to answer.
SEGMENT 2 — THE GOSPEL
Mark 16:15–18
“Go ye into the whole world and preach the Gospel to every creature.”
Today’s Gospel contains the final mandate of Christ to His Apostles the Great Commission:
“Go into the whole world and preach the Gospel to every creature.”
This command is not optional.
It is the very heartbeat of the Catholic Church.
1. The universality of the Gospel
Christ did not say:
• Preach only to the receptive,
• only to your own nation,
• only to those who agree with you,
• or only to those who are polite.
No—
“to every creature.”
The Gospel is universal because Christ is universal—
the King of Kings, the Lord of history,
the Redeemer of every soul.
2. The conditions of salvation have not changed.
“He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved;
he that believeth not shall be condemned.”
In an age of relativism, universalism, and doctrinal confusion, these words stand as a thunderclap of clarity.
Christ Himself teaches:
• Faith is necessary.
• Baptism is necessary.
• The Church is necessary.
No amount of modern reinterpretation can soften His words. Advent is the season to realign our hearts with His truth.
3. Signs follow those who believe.
Christ promises that the early Church will be accompanied by signs: casting out devils, protection from evil, healing through anointing.
These miracles served and still serve to confirm the authority of the Church He founded.
Wherever the Catholic Faith is lived with purity, zeal, reverence, and Tradition, the supernatural flourishes.
SEGMENT 3: THE FEAST OF ST. FRANCIS XAIVER
Apostle of the Indies, Conqueror of Hearts
Today’s feast highlights one of the greatest missionaries in Church history.
Francis Xavier traveled over 46,000 miles without modern transportation preaching Christ to India, Japan, Malaysia, the islands of Southeast Asia,
and attempting to enter China before his death.
He baptized more than 700,000 converts.
He slept little, worked tirelessly, mortified himself constantly, and wrote letters begging the Jesuits in Europe
to send more laborers to the harvest.
What made him so powerful?
1. Zeal for souls
Francis Xavier believed what the Gospel said:
souls who die without the Catholic faith are in eternal danger.
This truth filled him with a holy urgency.
Today, too many Catholics clergy and laity alike have lost the missionary spirit because they have lost the supernatural worldview.
Francis Xavier reminds us:
If we love souls, we must proclaim the truth.

2. Fidelity to Catholic doctrine and sacramental life
He did not water down the Gospel.
He did not compromise.
He did not attempt to be “culturally relevant.”
He taught the Catechism, preached repentance,
promoted devotion to the Blessed Virgin,
and offered the Holy Mass with profound reverence.
3. Total abandonment to God
He lived Advent every day watchful, sacrificial, longing for Christ to be known and loved.
The fire that burned in his heart must burn in ours.
SEGMENT 4 — HOW THIS APPLIES TO US TODAY
1. Advent must awaken our missionary identity.
You may not be called to sail to Japan,
but you are called to preach Christ:
• in your family,
• in your workplace,
• in your parish,
• in your community.
Silence today is not humility—
it is surrender.
2. Confess the faith boldly.
The world is hostile.
The Church is confused.
People are starving for truth.
Now is the time to speak.
3. Pray for missionary hearts.
Pray that your priests regain apostolic zeal.
Pray that your children hold fast to the true faith.
Pray that Christ’s Holy Church will once again renew the world through preaching, sacrifice, tradition, and holiness.
CONCLUSIONARY PRAYER
Let us pray.
O God, Who didst send St. Francis Xavier to bring the light of Christ
to nations yet unborn in the faith,
inflame our hearts with the same divine charity.
Grant that during this season of Advent,
we may prepare our souls with deeper faith,
bolder witness,
and a burning love for the salvation of souls.
Strengthen us to confess the faith of the Apostles,
to defend the truth without fear,
and to live as true missionaries
in the midst of a world that has forgotten Thee.
St. Francis Xavier, pray for us.
Mary, Queen of Apostles, pray for us.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, come and reign.
Amen.