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Show At this Glorious and Holy time, we wish for all mankind the great gifts of peace and joy, faith and love. May our spirits be uplifted, and our hearts filled with happiness and contentment, as we cherish anew the glorious message and meaning of Christmas. For the confidence and loyalty of those whom we are privileged to serve, we wish to express deepest gratitude. A time for spiritual rededication. by Father Valine - St. Bridget's Catholic Church Christ, the King of the If we can change from the meaning of the Holy Year and the Church, especially world, chose for His birth- materialistic to the spiritual called by Pope Paul VI. He the Sacrament of Penance place, not a richly adorned, viewpoint, our lives, as well has designated this year to which probes the roots of our luxurious palace, but a sim- as the lives of others, will be called Holy for the good very being, pie and humble stable In be blessed this Christmas- of all men In Christ. It could be with this special Bethlehem. His earthly home tide, not with fleeting and There is something spe- year of grace and blessing, was that of a poor carpenter surface pleasures, but with cial that we share in the birth that Jesus will really live of Nazareth. All through His the true and abiding Joys and of Christ. We share the again for many of us. life, He associated most lasting happiness. friendship and love express- My dear friends In Christ: widely with the simple and In some ways we are very ed by the child coming as one we are celebrating for the bumble. Isn't there a clear much like the people of the of us. It does help us to real- first time in the new church message here? Scriptures. We read, we ize that we are all brothers Christmas mid-night Mass. Hasn't the emphasis on study, and pray about the and sisters in Christ, and The church is not quite fin-values fin-values shifted to the other person of Jesus, and yet most from Him comes our power ished, but Christ did not dis-extreme- in our twentieth of the time our lives remain to renew the face of the earth. dain being born in a stable, century? Isn't there too much unaffected. This year, and It is time to rejoice and cele- We do not hesitate celebrat-emphasis celebrat-emphasis laid on material next, the whole Church cele- brate. It is a time to love and Ing Holy Mass in an unfin-rather unfin-rather than spiritual gain, on brates a Holy Year with a give in those special ways. ished church. May we have 1 the tinsel and the glitter theme of reconciliation. We ought to try making a the pleasure of celebrating rather than the hidden, true - What better time of the year real change in our livinghab- wjth you In attendance? To all .meaning? . than this brings the true its, gaining a deeper feeling my friends, a Holy and and love for the sacraments Blessed Christmas. |