Episode 3317: Christmas and Christ Hidden in Every Page of Scripture - Part 2

December 4, 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
St. Athanasius: On the Incarnation
(De Incarnatione Verbi Dei)

St. Athanasius (4th century), the great defender of Christ’s divinity and champion of the Nicene Faith, explains the Incarnation not as a sentimental event, but as a divine invasion to overthrow death, restore creation, and conquer the devil.
This aligns exactly with your episode’s thesis.

1. Christmas as the Cosmic War Against Satan
Athanasius teaches that the Word took flesh to destroy the works of the devil not simply to comfort mankind, but to “re-create” fallen humanity from the inside.
This mirrors your emphasis on Christmas as:
• divine intervention
• the beginning of the world’s redemption
• the opening strike in a spiritual battle

2. Christ on Every Page of Scripture
Athanasius’ method is pure patristic typology:
he reads the Old Testament as a tapestry of shadows preparing for the Incarnation just as you outlined (Burning Bush, Manna, Ark, Cloud of Glory).
He teaches that:
• the Word appears in the Old Testament in figures and types
• all prophecy converges in Bethlehem
• the Old Testament is unintelligible without the Incarnation
This is precisely the theme of The Unbroken Light.

3. The Incarnation Leads to the Cross and Eucharist
Athanasius presents the Incarnation as one continuous movement toward Calvary the same theological arc you emphasized:
Bethlehem → the Crib → the Cross → the Altar.
For Athanasius,

Christ is born to die, and He dies to give us His divine life.

This is exactly the unbroken logic you describe in the Traditional Catholic worldview.

4. The Restoration of Man Through the Word Made Flesh
Athanasius argues that the Incarnation restores:
• truth
• human dignity
• the order of creation
• the possibility of holiness
This parallels your line:
“When you lose the meaning of the Incarnation, you lose the meaning of humanity.”

5. The Clarity and Precision That Challenges Modernism
Like St. Peter Chrysologus, Athanasius writes:
• with doctrinal sharpness
• with patristic precision
• with zero compromise
• with a Christocentric focus

His writings expose the fragility of modern Christianity’s watered-down theology exactly what your episode critiques.

Why This Book Fits Your Intended Audience

Your podcasts speak to:
• fallen-away Catholics
• traditional Catholics
• those seeking clarity
• those hungry for reverence and the TLM
• those weary of modernist ambiguity

Athanasius is:
• unapologetic
• clear
• rooted in Tradition
• doctrinally exact
• liturgically resonant
• universally respected
And his book is short, accessible, and spiritually powerful.
Three Quotes From On the Incarnation That Match Your Theme

1. The Incarnation as Divine Warfare
“The Word of God came in His own person, because it was He alone, the Image of the Father, who could recreate man made after the Image.”

2. The Purpose of Christmas
“He became what we are so that He might make us what He is.”
(This is the entire theology of the Traditional Latin Mass in one sentence.)
3. The Victory of Christ Over Darkness

“The Saviour of all, the Word of God, might be manifested, and He might Himself abolish death.”
Exactly your theme:
Christmas is not sentiment it is salvation.

The Unbroken Light: How the Traditional Catholic Faith Restores the True Meaning of Christmas on Every Page

FROM PROPHECY TO POWER
In Part 1, we explored how Christ appears on every page of Scripture.

But today we go deeper.

We step into the heart of Catholic theology, the radiance of the Traditional Latin Mass, and the burning call to restore what modern Christianity has forgotten that Christmas is not a cozy cradle-scene, but the invasion of God into fallen history, the opening act of the world’s redemption.

Too many Christians even many Catholics have reduced Christmas to sentimentality.

Lights, music, nostalgia… but little transformation.
Yet the Traditional Faith tells a different story.

A story of cosmic warfare, divine intervention, and the eternal Word who enters time to conquer death.
And so today, we continue our journey through Scripture and Tradition to rediscover:

How the Traditional Catholic worldview restores the full meaning of Christmas lost in modern religion and why this recovery is essential for the Church’s renewal.

SEGMENT 1 — THE SHADOWS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT: THE DIVINE PATTERN OF ADVENT

The Fathers of the Church teach that God prepared humanity for the Incarnation through a long, slow, unfolding pattern a divine pedagogy.

Let us look deeper into some powerful examples.

1. The Burning Bush (Exodus 3)

A bush that burns but is not consumed.
This is not merely symbolic it is Marian typology.

The bush = Mary.
The fire = the divinity of Christ.
The preservation of the bush = her perpetual virginity.

The Incarnation is already here in seed form.

2. The Cloud of Glory (Exodus 40)

The Shekinah, the luminous cloud of God’s presence, filled the Tabernacle.

The Fathers say this cloud foreshadows the overshadowing of Mary by the Holy Ghost.

The same God who dwelt in the tabernacle
now chooses to dwell in the womb of a Virgin.

This is Christmas on the pages of Exodus.

3. The Manna in the Desert (Exodus 16)

A mysterious bread from heaven.
But the bread was not the fulfillment it was the preview.

Christ Himself proclaims:
“Your fathers ate manna and died… I am the living Bread come down from heaven.”

Christmas is not complete at the manger.
It reaches its fulfillment in the Eucharist a truth only preserved whole in the Catholic Church.

SEGMENT 2 — BETHLEHEM: WHERE PROPHECY BECOMES SACRAMENT

The name Bethlehem means:
“House of Bread.”

Christ, the Bread of Life, is laid in a manger
a feeding trough.

From the first moment of His earthly life, Christ reveals His mission:

“My flesh is real food, and My blood is real drink.”

Modern Christianity stops at the sentiment of Bethlehem.
But Traditional Catholicism sees:

• Bethlehem → the Crib → leads to the Cross → leads to the Altar.
• Christmas → Good Friday → the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass → your Communion.
This is not poetry.
This is the unbroken logic of Tradition.

SEGMENT 3 — WHY MODERN CHRISTIANITY LOST THE FULLNESS OF CHRISTMAS

Let us speak plainly:

Most Christians today Catholic and Protestant alike are living with a fragmented understanding of the Incarnation.

Why?

Because when the Church embraces modernity, she loses her roots.

The loss of Latin, silence, reverence, sacred music, and typology has severed Catholics from the ancient vision of Scripture.

Many Catholics no longer see:

• Mary as the Ark
• the Mass as Calvary
• Bethlehem as the shadow of the Altar
• the Incarnation as the beginning of the Paschal Mystery
• Advent as preparation for the Second Coming

Modern Christianity makes Christmas “nice.”
Traditional Catholicism proclaims Christmas as necessary for salvation.

This is why the world is collapsing spiritually:

Because when you lose the meaning of the Incarnation,
you lose the meaning of humanity.

SEGMENT 4 — THE TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS AND THE RETURN OF CHRISTMAS GLORY

In the Traditional Latin Mass, the Incarnation is not merely remembered it is entered into.

Consider these moments:

1. The “Et incarnatus est”

Every Catholic kneels as the priest speaks these sacred words.

Heaven bends toward earth at these words.
Time stops.
Angels adore.

2. The Gospel of Christmas Day — The Prologue of John

The climax:
“Et Verbum caro factum est.”
And the Word was made flesh.

The priest genuflects.
The people bow their heads.
This is the most sacred instant in all of Scripture.

3. The Offertory and Canon

The same Christ who entered the world through Mary
now becomes present on the altar through the hands of the priest.

The Incarnation continues in every Mass.

No modern worship service, no simplified liturgy, no sentimental “Christmas celebration” can replace the majesty of this moment.

SEGMENT 5 — A CALL TO THE FAITHFUL: RESTORE WHAT WAS LOST

This is where Part 2 becomes a declaration.

If Christ is on every page of Scripture,
then Catholics must return to the fullness of the faith that reveals Him there.

We are called to:

Restore reverence

• Restore Tradition
• Restore devotion
• Restore Marian theology
• Restore the centrality of the Eucharist
• Restore the continuity with the Fathers

Because once you lose the sense of awe before the Incarnation, you lose the sense of sin, the sense of repentance, the sense of truth, and the sense of God Himself.

Christmas will save the world again but only if Catholics reclaim its true meaning.

CONCLUSION

The Incarnation is the hinge of all human history.
It is God’s thunderous entrance into His creation.

It is not a sentiment.
It is a revelation, a sacrifice, a summons, and a promise.

Christ appears on every page because:
He is the Author, the Fulfillment, and the End of all things.

THE EPISTLE
2 Timothy 4:1–8
“Preach the word… in season and out of season.”
Today’s Epistle is one of the final exhortations St. Paul gives before his martyrdom.
He writes to Timothy a bishop and to the whole Church:
“Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season; reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine.”

This is not a gentle suggestion.
It is a command that anchors the mission of the Church.

Three Reflections on the Epistle

1. The Apostolic duty to guard doctrine is perpetual.
Paul warns of a time our time when:
• people “will not endure sound doctrine”
• they will seek teachers who tell them what they want to hear
• they will “turn away from the truth and turn aside to fables”
This is modern Catholicism in miniature.
The solution is not compromise.
It is not “dialogue.”
It is not accommodation to the spirit of the age.
The solution is sound doctrine preached with charity and clarity.
This is the mission of Advent:
to return to Christ’s truth before His coming.

2. The preacher must suffer for the Gospel.
Paul writes:
“Be sober… endure hardship… do the work of an evangelist.”
Every saint loved this command.
The world hates truth but the saint embraces the suffering that comes from preaching it.

Traditional Catholics today feel these words deeply:
standing for the Mass of the Ages,
defending the moral law,
refusing modern errors
these things invite ridicule, misunderstanding, exclusion, and even hostility.
But Advent calls us to prepare through suffering, not escape it.

3. Paul’s beautiful farewell the crown awaits the faithful.
“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.”
Notice what Paul glories in:
Not accomplishments,
not numbers,
not popularity
but fidelity.
He kept the faith.
That is the measure of a saint.
That is the mission of Advent.

SEGMENT 2 — THE GOSPEL
Matthew 5:13–19
“You are the salt of the earth… You are the light of the world.”
In today’s Gospel, Our Lord describes the identity of His disciples using two images: salt and light.
But both images come with warnings.

1. “If the salt lose its savor…”
Salt in the ancient world preserved food from corruption.
Christ is saying:
“If you lose the truth, the world decays.”
Today, this is painfully visible.
When Catholics compromise doctrine,
when bishops soften moral teachings,
when parishes abandon reverence,
when families stop praying—
the culture collapses.
The loss of supernatural salt leads to natural decay.
And Christ warns:
Salt that loses its savor is “good for nothing.”
A Church that abandons truth cannot save.
Advent calls us to regain our saltiness through penance and fidelity.

2. “A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.”
Catholics are not meant to blend into the world.
Our worship, doctrine, morality, and charity are meant to stand out.
But today, many Catholics and many leaders seek the opposite:
• to avoid controversy
• to appear of the world
• to be accepted by secular powers
• to soften doctrines for the sake of comfort
•
Yet Christ says:
You must shine.
Not with your own ideas, but with His truth.

3. “I have not come to destroy the law, but to fulfill it.”
Our Lord reaffirms the unchanging moral law and the permanence of His teaching:
“Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall not pass from the law.”
This is one of the clearest refutations of modernist theology.
Doctrine cannot evolve into its opposite.
Moral teaching cannot be reversed.
Liturgical worship cannot be severed from Tradition.
The Gospel cannot be reinvented.
The smallest letter of God’s law matters.
Advent prepares us to meet a King who is unchanging Truth.

ST. PETER CHRYSOLOGUS
The Golden-Mouthed Doctor of Clear Doctrine
St. Peter Chrysologus (5th century), Bishop of Ravenna, was known as the Doctor Aureus—the Golden Word.
Why?
Because his preaching radiated clarity, purity, and doctrinal precision.
What he teaches us today:
1. Truth must be spoken with precision.
Chrysologus did not blur lines.
He did not dilute doctrine.
He did not negotiate with heresy.
His sermons pierced hearts because they came from a bishop who preached without fear.

2. Charity and clarity must coexist.
He spoke with gentleness but never with ambiguity.
This is the lost art of the Church today:
firm doctrine delivered with fatherly love.

3. Christ-centered preaching is the soul of evangelization.
Chrysologus taught that every doctrine leads to Christ—
His Incarnation, His Cross, His Eucharistic presence, His Kingship.
At a time when many sermons focus on psychology, politics, trends, or feelings, Chrysologus calls us back:
Preach Christ or preach nothing.
This is the heart of Advent.

SEGMENT 4 — LIVING THE MESSAGE THIS ADVENT
1. Guard the Faith.
Study it.
Live it.
Defend it.
Hand it on intact.
2. Embrace penance.
Salt is made through purification.
So is holiness.
3. Shine with visible fidelity.
Let your worship be reverent,
your morals firm,
your words truthful,
your devotion public.
4. Long for the Second Coming.
Advent is not only about Bethlehem
it is about the return of the King.
Stand ready.

CONCLUSIONARY PRAYER
Let us pray.
O Lord Jesus Christ,
You who are the Light of the world
and the Eternal Word made flesh,
purify our hearts this Advent
that we may be salt that preserves
and light that shines with Your truth.
Through the intercession of St. Peter Chrysologus,
grant us clarity of doctrine,
courage in witness,
and fidelity in all trials.
Strengthen us to guard the deposit of faith
until the day when You come again in glory.
May Mary, Mother of Divine Wisdom,
keep us close to Your Sacred Heart.
Amen.