At Christmas
At Christmas, there are more lights, not only because it is dark outside, but because we look for the completeness of truth.
At Christmas, children are born not only to the world, but also as a hope for eternity.
At Christmas, people sing in different languages; but they also sing in the single melodious language of love.
At Christmas, the pride and grandeur of the good become humility, simplicity and fraternity.
At Christmas, family come together not only to celebrate, but also to strengthen their sense of unity.
At Christmas, we do not remember God in the highest, but we discover Him through humanity.
At Christmas, conflict, hatred and injustice are the answers of those who do not accept peace.
At Christmas, poverty becomes a psalm, the psalm becomes a prayer and the prayer becomes happiness for those who await the coming of the Savior.
At Christmas, the lives of the poor, the ill, the imprisoned, the immigrant, the youth and the children become a nativity where baby Jesus is born.
At Christmas, the orphans, widows and homeless find comfort at the entrance of Bethlehem.
At Christmas, the homeless, unemployed and displaced are welcomed at the cradle of baby Jesus.
At Christmas, drunkards, drug addicts and sinners are called to rebirth in holiness.
At Christmas, the powerful, leaders and dictators, find in the newly born the call for solidarity.
At Christmas, human beings, families, the Church and society see the way of service as the way of adoring baby Jesus.
At Christmas, all of us ask for the coming of Jesus to strengthen our faith, our hope and our practice of charity.
- Padre Fernando Torres