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of a Happy and Holy We wish the blessing Are they a passing surface emotion , or do they indicate a radical Men from a far toiled over sandy wastes to lay their gifts at His in His last terrible hours . Few there are amongst the world's after in every generation from the fateful moment of Adam's impotently in the miserable interlude between conflict and came to welcome or to worship . A few shepherds in their out in His infancy , and Nazareth in His manhood , and Jerusalem by it in all that we do and have and are . drama of that ' Holy Night , Silent Night ' was incredibly Christmas have for the thief who will not mend his ways , for for animals the King of Ages was born . The tiny , shivering Christmas . service of God and the preparation for eternity . To all our Readers . houghts if we do not bring the question nearer home . ' Is the still no room . father Dermot , C.P. , and another . How little weight have his words amongst those ' there was no room for them in the inn . ' " In a shed designed the poverty of the stable and the absence of a fitting welcome . of wretchedness and gloom came the Holy Family , because That means that we must accept His Law and henceforth live feet . For the rest-He was not wanted . clothed in their flesh , to undo the ancient crippling evil , to during this coming Christmas , the Saviour must not be unwanted profligate who refuses to walk the hard road of purity ? By us . made for everything except for the " one thing necessary , " the born . Cruel , because His birthplace was a stable . To a novel version to Him , to His will and His ways ? ' The fact is that we N the long ago we were moved by the manager scene . Even THERE was a time long , long ago , when we listened want wanted . Though a great star blazed in the heavens , and angels restore the glorious life of Grace . to the story of Bethlehem and its Blessed Child . It was new now we are touched by it . Our emotions are still kindled by live in a world which has cast Him out as Bethlehem cast Him sent the glad news ringing over the hills of Bethlehem , no throngs our young ears , warming to our childish hearts . To u Infant sleeping on the manger straw was the Deliverer sighted Yet when " He came . He was not recognised : He was not who frantically blueprint an ideal society in which provision is statesmen who now hearten to Him as the nations thrash about There will , however , be little profit for us in such grim We must commit ourselves to Him utterly and unreservedly . wonderful , unbelievably cruel . Wonderful , because God was # numerous consensus t what strength , what endurance have these dispositic the calculator who has no sorrow for his calumny . for the attered cloaks gathered in awe at the stable door , and sinning . The Son of God had come at last among His creatures . fant unwanted by ourselves ? " What practical meanin reordering of our lives , a true welcome for the Child , a real con- in the setting peace between one bout of fratricide to…