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So, though at Christmas time happiness may come from family reunions or the memories of carefree childhood days, yet the true personal joy is reserved for those who have experienced his redeeming work in their own souls – who have known the cleansing power of their Lord’s forgiveness, who have seen that he does not despise their unworthy state, but has visited them, and has been born within their souls, filling them with his light and life and changing them completely, before their very eyes, from what they were before.

And all of this they owe, not to any merit in themselves, but only to the Holy Babe and to his love; and in him they rejoice, and their joy, as he himself promised, no one will take from them (see John 16:22).


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