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“How to find
Christmas peace in a world of unrest? You cannot find peace on the outside but
you can find peace on the inside, by letting God do to your soul what Mary let Him
do to her body, namely, let Christ be formed in you. As she cooked meals in her
Nazarene home, as she nursed her aged cousin, as she drew water at the well, as
she prepared the meals of the village carpenter, as she knitted the seamless
garment, as she kneaded the dough and swept the floor, she was conscious that
Christ was in her; that she was a living Ciborium, a monstrance of the Divine
Eucharist, a Gate of Heaven through which a Creator would peer upon creation, a
Tower of Ivory up whose chaste body He was to climb "to kiss upon her lips
a mystical rose."
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