31 December 2025 - 7th day in the Octave of Christmas
Homily
We have reached the last day of the Octave of Christmas.
The name of this feast of Christmas in our Latin liturgical books is ‘Nativitas Domini’, which translates as ‘birth of the Lord’. However, what we are celebrating is not the 2025th anniversary of the birth of Jesus. What we are celebrating is something more important. It is the very fact that God became man.