Christmas is built…
Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.
–GK Chesterton (1874-1936)
Read the Gospel…
Read and re-read ceaselessly the Holy Gospel… so as to always have before one’s mind the actions, words and thoughts of Jesus, in order to think, speak and act like Jesus, to follow the examples and teachings of Jesus, not the examples and ways of behaving of the world. So easily do we fall into this latter, as soon as we take our eyes off the Divine Model.
–Blessed Charles de Foucauld (1858–1916)
Quite gently utter…
It is well to seek greater solitude so as to make room for the Lord and allow His Majesty to do His own work in us. The most we should do is occasionally, and quite gently, to utter a single word, like a person giving a little puff to a candle, when he sees it has almost gone out, so as to make it burn again
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Scripture restrains and corrects…
Scripture takes away none of the things given by God for our use, but it restrains immoderation and corrects unreasonableness.
–Saint Maximos the Confessor (580-662)
Scripture must become…
For the theologian, just as much as for the contemplative, Scripture, more than being just a source, must become the sea in which all life’s rivers lose themselves.
–Charles Journet (1891–1975)
Christmas gifts…
And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans–and all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms and bears fruit and all that we quarrel about and all that we have misused–and to save us from our foolishness, from all our sins, He came down to earth and gave us Himself.
―Sigrid Undset (1882-1949)
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