Merry Christmas to our readers and friends

 On this holy night, allow the Christ Child to be born in your heart and in your home, and never let Him go. 

 Let the world continue its course, while you and your family step away from its whirlwind to silently and reverently adore the Child born in the humblest manger. Afterward, with fervor, sing to Him and lull Him to sleep with Christmas carols, and pray, thanking Him for all the blessings He brings. This is not just another family dinner: it is a family gathering to celebrate the birth of the Christ Child. 

 Saint Alphonsus Liguori teaches us: "Only in this Child did the eternal Father find his delight, because, as Saint Gregory says, only in him did he find no sin. Let us, therefore, miserable sinners, take comfort, for this divine Infant has come from heaven to communicate his innocence to us through his Passion. His merits, if we only knew how to value them, can transform us from sinners into saints and innocents; let us place our trust in them, let us always ask the eternal Father for grace through them, and we will obtain everything."