Sheen’s Merry Christmas

Our Lord came to his earth to experience

What it is like when we are disappointed…

At not getting a hotel reservation;

At having to bump up against so many stupid asses and dumb oxen on our way through life;

For not getting the Birthday gifts we expect..

BUT, He also came to teach us we could never

Be disappointed…

If we found that love which falls short in all other loves

If we learn to see that next to His Presence in the Blessed Sacrament, our neighbor is the most Christ-like object we will ever know

And if we learn to  admit the dirt in the stable of our own lives

We will have found the first sign of His Presence in us…

Then we will understand that if He relieved us of every disappointment;

If He gave us only, nice new things;

We might forget HIM

And that would rob us of the joy of wishing one another

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

–Fulton J. Sheen

This was the opening piece in the newsletter of The Archbishop Fulton John Sheen Foundation.