God is with us!
Through His loving and consoling Presence He seeks to guide us in
life. But how difficult it can be to open oneself to that Presence.
Come to Him anew this Christmas. In His greatness, He has made Himself small, both in the stable and the Host, so that we might not fear to approach Him in our weakness, with our burdens, just as we are. Jesus comes to us as a baby, a vulnerable One, to draw us out from the prison of loneliness into His abundant Life where He is our constant Friend and His people, our family.
May you and your loves ones know the Merciful Presence of our loving God this Christmas and always. He is near!
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"The process of formation and
development in the religious life has to be the process of the
clay in the hands of the potter, the Divine Potter, Who shapes
us uniquely to be filled with His Son, and yet each of us in a
different way... If God wanted every religious to be exactly
alike, then God would have created every human being exactly
alike." - John Cardinal O'Connor
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