Dear Friends
Since Thanksgiving evening, Christmas songs have been playing on the radio. They fill the airwaves in stores readied for the shopping rush, but how often do we really hear the songs’ message?
Today, let us pause to take in the words from the third verse of O Holy Night, too often left unsung:
Truly He taught us to love one another;
His law is Love and His Gospel is Peace
Chains shall He break, for the slave is our brother
And in His name, all oppression shall cease.
As violence rages today throughout the world and Earth is devastated by human consumption, let us remember why Jesus came to us and left us the gift of his Spirit—and not just for a brief season!
The grace of Christmas is ours every day of the year because the Word made Flesh remains within us. May this joyful truth of Christ’s eternal, everlasting, constant gift of love and peace fill your life with hope, that one day the reign of God will be fulfilled and in His name all oppression shall cease! And so, together, let us sing to our abundant God of love:
Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we
Let all within us Praise His Holy name
Christ is the Lord; O praise His name forever!
His power and glory evermore proclaim
His power and glory evermore proclaim.
In the name of the Dominican Sisters of Springfield, I wish you a Blessed Christmas and a Peace-filled New Year.
