Christmas, 2023

Rejoice in the Lord: our Savior is born on earth! Today He descended from heaven to bring us true Peace!
(Ant. Midnight Christmas Mass)

We are in the process today of celebrating with great joy and gratitude, the 800 years where St. Francis transformed Greccio into a new Bethlehem by a symbolic event of daily life : “The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us.” (Jn 1:14)

At this moment we are experiencing various crises, wars fear...but we know in whom we place our trust, “Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen.” (Heb 11:1 ). We want Peace, Tenderness, Harmony, Unity, Synodality... “Light in Darkness “.

We wish for our dreams, woven with hope, “descend like dewdrops on the earth” and our hearts fully opened to the LIGHT which will never be extinuguished and LOVE incarnated in our small gestures, signs, events and persons who, at every moment and in all places form part of our lives.

Standing before the Manger, prayerfully, let us look upon, be seized and touched by Jesus – God with us.   Allow Him to “take flesh” in us and as missionary disciples of Our Lady, proclaim to all the joy of the Gospel.

A Holy and Joyful Christmas and a New Year filed with Blessings from the Lord.

General Council