On this feast of Christmas, we ask for Your blessings, Lord, to be upon our brothers, their families, friends, and all who are near to us. A thought and a prayer:
“Only if people change will the world change, people need the light that comes from God, the light which so unexpectedly [on the night of Christmas] entered into our night.”
Pope Benedict XVI
Christmas Prayer
O sweet child of Bethlehem, Grant that we may share with all our hearts in this profound mystery of Christmas. Put into the hearts of men and women this peace for which they sometimes seek most desperately and which you alone can give to them. Help them to know one another better, and to live as brothers and sisters, children of the same father. Reveal to them also your beauty, holiness and love and gratitude for your infinite goodness. Join them all together in your love and give us your heavenly peace. Amen
Pope John XXIII
A wish for a very Merry Christmas!
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