The liturgical year is the Church's colour-wheel, lending its hues to the year's seasons, and every year I think I am fondest of the sweet mauve of Advent. Now its mood of quiet anticipation has brought us to this day, Christmas Day, when, by the quiet marvel in the stable, Christ, the Son of God, entered not only our world but our human family, and so changed everything for ever. No earthly power can touch this truth; no ideology destroy it; and by it we know — even when life seems to demand of us impossible courage — that all things shall be right in the end. Purple gives way to white and gold; the triumph of innocence is at hand; the Devil's works are set unravelling. A light has shone into the world, and the darkness has not overcome it.
Merry Christmas, one and all!
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