Reflections this Christmas Oh, Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind.” MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET
To an open house in the evening Home shall men come, To an older place than Eden And a taller town than Rome. To the end of the way of the wandering star, To the things that cannot be and that are, To the place where God was homeless And all men are at home.
Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him, nor earth sustain; Heaven and earth shall flee away when He comes to reign. In the bleak midwinter a stable place sufficed The Lord God Almighty, Jesus Christ.
For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.
CHRISTINA ROSETTI
It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you ... yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother or sister and offer him your hand.
Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around, he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?
Dear Nuala, You mustn't have received my last letter when you were sending us the four calling birds. There was pandemonium in the peartree again last night and the vet's bill was £32. The mother is on sedation as I write. I know you meant no harm and remain your close friend Gobnauit.
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
FRANK KELLY TWELVE DAYS OF
GK CHESTERTON
CHARLES DICKENS
ST TERESA OF CALCUTTA
The simple shepherds heard the voice of an angel and found their lamb; the wise men saw the light of a star and found their wisdom. VEN FULTON SHEEN
CHRISTMAS
Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.
A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes – and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.
POPE FRANCIS
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Once in our world, a stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.
We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.
When we were children, we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
CS LEWIS
BLESSED PAUL VI
GK CHESTERTON
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
“Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.” MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET
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