This Is Christmas

To believe in Christmas is to believe in miracles,

To believe that the ineffable God would choose

To be a human forever.

More, to believe He did it because

He loves you,

and could not bear for you to exist

and not to be with you.

So He came.

He was born miraculously once

on this planet, in time.

He is born anew each time

a human says to Him, "I believe."

He is born anew in our hearts

each Christ Mass,

the baby who came to die

and take our curse, our death.

The divine scheme for our rescue

begins with the wailing infant 

at Christmas,

And ends with the Mass of Christ,

The body, the blood, made in Mary.

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