… So, what if Christmas really were about more than a sharing of purchased gifts, a day or so of family happiness, some cards and carols, and then a plunge back into the world with its deathly struggles and ills and terrible news? What if it were about more, even, than a baby who grew up to be the New Testament’s incredibly loving and forgiving Jesus, the man the Bible describes as a healer of the sick and Savior from sin?
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The Christ itself is now, and always has been, present for everyone, individually and collectively, across cultures and centuries.
This article was written by Mary Beattie, a member of the Canberra Christian Science community. It was published in the 22 December 2025 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel.
In Australia, where I live, Christmas comes at a time when the weather is warm and the mental atmosphere generally upbeat. It’s the beginning of summer, and people are looking forward to a change in their schedules. As it is the end of the academic year, students are assessing their progress. Politicians often take a break, and the daily news is more optimistic, reflecting on reasons for hope in the world. Our Christmastime is generally characterized by people taking time to care for their community and the planet.
While this constructive activity is welcome, the ideal of how to care for the community was set almost two thousand years ago in the way Christ Jesus operated. The selflessness, intelligence, love, and joy so clearly seen in Jesus’ daily activities are more than humanistic traits; they are Christly qualities sourced in Spirit, God. Jesus is the one who most consistently expressed this Christliness, although Christly qualities existed before Jesus’ birth and continue today. The Christ itself is now, and always has been, present for everyone, individually and collectively, across cultures and centuries. Click here to continue reading or to listen this article
Christ, as the spiritual or true idea of God, comes now as of old, preaching the gospel to the poor, healing the sick, and casting out evils.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p347: 14-17)
Wearing in part a human form (that is, as it seemed to mortal view), being conceived by a human mother, Jesus was the mediator between Spirit and the flesh, between Truth and error. Explaining and demonstrating the way of divine Science, he became the way of salvation to all who accepted his word. From him mortals may learn how to escape from evil.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p315: 29)
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
(The Bible KJV – John 14: 12)
Jesus established his church and maintained his mission on a spiritual foundation of Christ-healing. He taught his followers that his religion had a divine Principle, which would cast out error and heal both the sick and the sinning.
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
(The Bible – Deuteronomy 6: 4, 5)
God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p465: 9)
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
(The Bible KJV – Matthew 18: 20)
Jesus established his church and maintained his mission on a spiritual foundation of Christ-healing. He taught his followers that his religion had a divine Principle, which would cast out error and heal both the sick and the sinning.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p136: 1)
To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
(The Bible KJV – Romans 8: 6)
Spiritual living and blessedness are the only evidences, by which we can recognize true existence and feel the unspeakable peace which comes from an all-absorbing spiritual love.
An article by a member of the Canberra Christian Science community (alternatively titled: Practice is essential) which was published in the 6 October 2025 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel.
I was walking across the lawn at the front of our house, enjoying the cool, squishy feeling of the grass under my bare feet, when suddenly there was an agonizing burning in my left foot. I live in Australia, where there are many things that bite and sting, and a pain of that magnitude is not a good thing. I spun around, looked down, and saw that I had been stung by a large wasp.
An often-used expression in Christian Science is “Know the truth.” It comes from Christ Jesus’ instruction “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32). Immediately, I did so, and as quickly as the first truthful, healing thought came, the pain left. There was no evidence of a sting, and I had no further reaction to it.
So what does knowing the truth really entail, and how can we be instant in our knowing of this truth that heals and protects?
As you can imagine, I was really grateful for the instantaneous nature of this healing. But healings are also wonderful learning experiences. Instead of thinking, “Wow! I’m glad that awful situation has passed,” I value how healings can help me to learn more about the law of God, divine Love, which governs me and all situations. I stop and think, “What worked there? Where was my thinking—was it on God or on the situation itself? What can I learn from this that will help me to be a more effective healer?”
I learned two lessons from this incident with the wasp. … Click here to read the full article: Practice is essential
God gives the lesser idea of Himself for a link to the greater, and in return, the higher always protects the lower. The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth his brother’s need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another’s good.
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