A merry and holy Christmas Eve to all.
I pray everyone is of good cheer and close to the Holy Family these holy days. May God keep us close to the Holy Family and together in love of Christ!
'This holy Virgin, so soon to become a mother, certainly suffered much in so long a journey, made in the middle of winter, and over rough roads; but she suffered with peace and with love. She offered to God all these her trials, uniting them to those of Jesus, whom she carried in her womb.
Oh, let us unite ourselves also, and let us accompany Mary and Joseph in the journey of our life; and, with them, let us accompany the King of Heaven, who is born in a cave, and makes his first appearance in the world as an infant, but as the poorest and most forsaken infant that ever was born amongst men. And let us beseech Jesus, Mary, and Joseph that, through the merits of the pains which they suffered in this journey, they would accompany us in the journey that we are making to eternity. Oh, blessed shall we be if, in life and in death, we keep company with these three great person ages, and are always accompanied by them!'
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
Meditations for the Novena for Christmas, 'The Incarnation, Birth, and Infancy of Jesus Christ' 
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