“The sign of Christmas has also been revealed to us: ‘a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes’. Like the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph, like the shepherds of Bethlehem, may we welcome in the Baby Jesus the love of God made man for us. And may we commit ourselves, with the help of his grace, to making our world more human and more worthy for the children of today and of the future.”
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“Anyone who turns away from the Cross, turns away from the Resurrection.”