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Joy to the World: How Christ's Coming Changed Everything (and Still Does) QUOTES

Joy to the World: How Christ's Coming Changed Everything (and Still Does) QUOTES

1 " To be a father means above all to be at the service of life and growth "

― Scott Hahn , Joy to the World: How Christ's Coming Changed Everything (and Still Does)

2 " history of salvation is not a small event, on a poor planet, in the immensity of the universe. It is not a minimal thing which happens by chance on a lost planet. It is the motive for everything, the motive for creation. Everything is created so that this story can exist, the encounter between God and his creature. —Pope Benedict XVI, address at the opening of the 12th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, October 6, 2008 "

― Scott Hahn , Joy to the World: How Christ's Coming Changed Everything (and Still Does)

3 " The family is the key to Christmas. The family is the key to Christianity. Pope Saint John Paul II noted that everything good—history, humanity, salvation—“passes by way of the family.”1 When God came to save us, he made salvation inseparable from family life, manifest in family life. Since the family is the ordinary setting of human life, he came to share it, redeem it, and perfect it. He made it an image and sacrament of a divine mystery. Salvation itself finds meaning only in familial relations. "

― Scott Hahn , Joy to the World: How Christ's Coming Changed Everything (and Still Does)

4 " Mary is the only possible witness to Jesus’s conception and birth. And Luke is a credible witness to Mary’s “pondering. "

― Scott Hahn , Joy to the World: How Christ's Coming Changed Everything (and Still Does)

5 " The primary witnesses to Christmas are the accounts of Matthew and Luke. They were written as history, though for two different audiences, each with its own culture and conventions for preserving history. Matthew, the early records tell us, wrote originally in Hebrew for a Jewish-Christian audience. Luke wrote for Greek-speaking Gentiles and Jews. "

― Scott Hahn , Joy to the World: How Christ's Coming Changed Everything (and Still Does)

6 " Without Christ, the world was a joyless place and any place where he remains unknown and unaccepted is a joyless place. Everything has changed since Christ's birth yet everything remains to be changed as people come to receive the child in faith. "

― Scott Hahn , Joy to the World: How Christ's Coming Changed Everything (and Still Does)