Editor’s Note: Danny Cometto is Chairman of FRCS’s Board.
Christmas: A Song for Every Believer
At Christmas we often picture angels singing, shepherds startled, and a newborn King lying in a manger. But there is another song in the story that deserves our attention — the first Christian hymn of the Kingdom. It came, surprisingly, not from a prophet or priest, but from a young woman who understood what it meant to bow before the true King.
Mary’s song — the Magnificat in Luke 1 — is more than a beautiful moment captured on the page. It is a declaration of what happens when God’s kingdom breaks into the world, and it is a song every believer can sing.
“My soul magnifies the Lord…
for the Mighty One has done great things for me.”
—Luke 1:46, 49
Mary isn’t celebrating an easy life, ideal circumstances, or her own strength. She sings because God has come, and His coming changes everything. Her life, though humble and hidden from the world’s power, is now blessed — makarios — because she has bowed to the true King.
And this is where her voice becomes our own.
The choice Mary makes in that moment stands in direct contrast to the world around her. Rome demanded fear. Herod demanded control. Life demanded anxiety and constant striving. Yet Mary placed her fear — her awe, her loyalty, her allegiance — in the only place where fear becomes freedom:
The fear of the Lord.
This isn’t terror; it’s trust.
It’s the recognition that God rules, God remembers, God overturns, and God saves.
It’s the kind of fear that allows a person to breathe again.
All of us, in different ways, face the same pull Mary faced. The world whispers:
- If you don’t respond fast enough, everything will fall apart.
- If you don’t do more, you’ll lose ground.
- If you don’t hold it all together, no one will.
That’s just Pharaoh with a modern vocabulary.
But Christmas reminds us that we bow to another King — a better King — the One whose rule brings mercy, peace, and rest. When we bow to Him, we find that the pressures that once ruled us begin to lose their grip.
Mary’s song becomes our song:
- He has looked upon my lowliness.
- He has done great things for me.
- His mercy covers generation after generation.
- His kingdom is not shaken by the kingdoms of this world.
In a season where noise increases, demands multiply, and the world tries to sell us manufactured peace, Christmas calls us back to true peace — the peace that comes only from Christ’s reign.
At FRCS, this is the life we want our students to see and to learn:
not fear of the world, but confidence in the King;
not striving to be strong, but resting in the strength of Christ;
not living for earthly success, but living from the mercy of God.
This Christmas, may Mary’s words become our own.
May our community stand together in the joy of knowing the King has come, and His kingdom is already breaking into our lives, our classrooms, our homes, and our hearts.
Merry Christmas, FRCS family.
May His kingdom come — in us, through us, and around us — as it is in heaven.
