Welcome to the celebration of the Midnight Mass of Christmas! Together, we pause and pray, we gather and open our hearts to God’s love and the love of our families and friends. We open our hearts, as well, to all those whom God loves, to the world saved by the child whose birth we remember this night.
The celebration of Christmas is a time to ask again a question sometimes put to us by children and even put to us by ourselves: “Who rules the world?” Our quick response might include: presidents and other rulers; people of wealth and people who influence the shaping of public opinion and the public conversation in the media; people in the halls of power in Washington and other capitals or at the United Nations. Those who rule the world are powerful people.
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