Every year during the Christmas season, the Church's liturgy brings our attention to St. Paul's Letter to the Christians who lived in Colossae, a city in the Lycus River valley, in modern day Turkey. St Paul wrote his letter from prison, probably in Rome. He had heard that the young Christian community in Colossae was experiencing turbulence. Some teachers there were claiming that Jesus, and the grace Jesus gives, were not sufficient for our salvation...