WE ARE CHRISTMAS!

We are ANGELS, when our lives offer hymns of praise to God;

We are JOHN THE BAPTIST, when we lead others to God;

We are POOR SHEPHERDS, when we cannot boast of any treasure but God;

We are JOSEPH, when we humbly and quietly listen to the voice of God;

We are MARY, when we offer our all to God;

We are WISE MEN, when we recognize as true king and savior only God;

we are JESUS, when our loving words become loving works for others, when we strive, inspite of our weakness, our sins and shortcomings, to die to ourselves that others may live.

For when we embrace the cross of our daily lives, when we impose with joy upon ourselves the gentle burden of loving one another, when we constantly pave the way for the salvation of others, then we recover the great beauty of who we originally are, the IMAGE AND LIKENESS of our God;

Then we truly become IMMANUEL, LOGOS-INCARNATE, GOD-WITH-US!

WE ARE CHRISTMAS!