Some believe Christmas Eve is when God entered the world in human form. Heightened feelingsI don’t think there has been a Christmas Eve in a long time when I haven’t felt the acute magic of being human in all its awful and wonderful contradictions. Mass on Christmas Eve in a country church is particularly beautiful. Once at Christmas Eve Mass in Dublin, I watched the CEO of a publicly listed company, a scion of a Cork family. But on Christmas Eve, he sat in the pew with his family like everyone else because he understood he didn’t matter more.

Source: Irish Examiner December 24, 2025 14:30 UTC