From the Principal’s Desk 2.17

Merry Christmas Dear Friends,

The final installment of my thoughts on Christmas this year deals with ‘where’.

So where did Christ come?  He came at the center of the world, the middle of the star, the highest mountain on earth.  If you know Bethlehem you might think that I am all wrong. It is a tiny village but consider Micah 5:2   "But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrata, Too little to be among the clans of Judah, From you One will go forth for Me to be ruler in Israel. His goings forth are from long ago, From the days of eternity."

In a very strange way it is not the location that tells us where Christ came; the location indicates where he comes.  Not to storied pomp and richest splendor, not to modern homes with central heat, but to a humble non-descript stable filled with fresh straw and warmed by the animals in it.  Yet of all the birthplaces in all the world, of all the wondrous temples and palaces, of all the hospitals and all the homes, there has never been and never will be a place that is more ‘where’ than Bethlehem. 

From Bethlehem the journey begins, a journey that leads right through all of our hearts.  For Christ must be born in our hearts and in the hearts of all our children if we are to experience a true Christmas.  He will come to a humble heart, not a proud one, to a person who is going to kneel in adoration before the might and power of a baby, who happens to be God! He will make that heart a sacred place worthy of Heaven.  The lack of storied pomp present at Bethlehem gives us all hope for He will come, if we have but the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

O Holy Child of Bethlehem,
    Descend to us, we pray!
Cast out our sin and enter in,
    Be born in us to-day.
We hear the Christmas angels,
    The great glad tidings tell;
O come to us, abide with us,
    Our Lord Emmanuel!

And again Merry Christmas and May the New Year be Blessed,

Timothy Gallic

Principal, Holy Family High School

303-410-1411

PS Of course I welcome comments, questions, concerns and cares but I also welcome smiles and laughter and a good story but come what may send them all in!

From the Principal's Desk 2.15-16

Dear Friends,

It is time to answer the question…when?

When did Christ come? Certainly he came at night, the world’s last night, before the first morning of the new world, the one in which man does not fall, but rises!  He came to a world still asleep, in all senses slumbering. No one suspected the time had come, there were no crowds gathered, breathless reports and bulletins were not being published.  The shepherds settled their flocks by night, the inn keeper put out the lamp, and perhaps a mid-wife was up with Mary and Joseph, perhaps not. 

Yet in God’s infinite wisdom it was the perfect time, not too soon, not too late, but just in time.  Human wisdom would have picked a more impressive place and time but God does not think as we do; He thinks as He does.  In our lives God exercises a particular schedule, from the vantage point of the one who sees everything (kind of like Santa, only much more so) and knows everything, and has infinite power, and combined with pure goodness His plan for you simply is best.  Like a child whose parents tell them to wait for Christmas morning for gifts, we must at times wait upon God’s plan with the surety that faith affords, knowing that in Christ all is not in vain.  The coldest darkest night will give way to glorious morning.  For on that Christmas morning, in just the nick of time, God came to a sad world, and when hope was all lost, the very word of God, the babe who could not speak came to lift us to the high station of being God’s children. 

Christ, by highest heaven adored;
Christ, the everlasting Lord;
Late in time behold him come,
Offspring of the Virgin's womb.
Veiled in flesh the Godhead see;
Hail the incarnate Deity,
Pleased as man with man to dwell;
Jesus, our Emmanuel!

Timothy Gallic

Principal, Holy Family High School

303-410-1411

The Christmas Season is fast approaching and if you happen by the school you will notice the very beautiful Nativity set displayed in the front of the school.  This gift from the Senior Class of 2012 adds greatly to our holiday decor.   If you walked up to it you will notice that Baby Jesus is missing.  Not to worry the statue is safe and sound but why is he not here?  Well that is answered in the second installment…what.

Scripture reminds us that the people who dwelt in darkness have seen a great light.  It should therefore not surprise us that a star announced his coming, or that the whole host of heaven, angels bright as the noon day sun, should proclaim his birth.  The birth of Christ brings seeing to a blind world, it is the first ‘sonrise’ since the fall of Adam, and it is light and joy and peace.  What Christ brought was the beginning of the unraveling of the curse of Adam, it was the start of a new age of Man and the echoes of that birth still resound over this weary world.  It is the birth of the New Adam.  The last verse of Hark the Herald Angels Sing, states, Adam’s likeness now efface, Stamp thine image in its place, Second Adam from Above, reinstate us in thy love!”

Do we walk in darkness today?  Do our children?  The solution is simple, but challenging to open your eyes.  See what God has done for all of us, give thanks for all that His hand has wrought, and be ready for Christmas morning, when Christ will be in the manger, and with the angels sing “Glory to the Newborn King”.

Happy Advent,

Timothy Gallic

Principal, Holy Family High School