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Christmas in The House of Our Lady Help of Christians<br />
Christmas bells were ringing, from the<br />
East and from the West; Christmas songs<br />
poured down from the highest heavens and<br />
surged up from the wintery earth. That was<br />
the day when the Son of Man was born, and<br />
all human hearts opened up to Him in love<br />
and thanksgiving, all human hearts yearned<br />
for Him.<br />
Thousands of sad, wounded hearts went<br />
out towards Him. All the poor, the downtrodden,<br />
the forsaken made a pilgrimage to<br />
Him, an endless procession. All those who<br />
had been battered by cruel fists, opened<br />
their weary eyes and lifted up their wounded<br />
arms; they carried their hearts towards Him.<br />
The Crucified Man accepted everyone; He<br />
forgot no one who came to Him, He gave<br />
each one His precious gifts. And they were<br />
grateful to Him and they trusted Him. The<br />
Gift he gave them was worth more than all<br />
the corrupt wealth sold by the corrupt lives<br />
for the corrupt hearts. All those who were<br />
touched by his merciful hand, who were<br />
blessed by his look, had their eyes opened,<br />
their burdens relieved and they jumped<br />
for joy. The Eternal Man had given them<br />
eternity. And whenever their suffering became<br />
too hard to bear, their hearts went<br />
up to Him, in the land of fulfilled hope and<br />
forgotten suffering.<br />
Christmas bells rang out from the East<br />
and from the West and all over the earth the<br />
wounded and downtrodden arose. Suffering<br />
celebrated a great feast of hope and triumph;<br />
those who realized that the road to eternal<br />
happiness leads through Calvary, were<br />
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comforted beyond measure. Those, who<br />
knew they were in Him and a part of Him,<br />
because they where whipped and crowned<br />
with thorns, stood proud and victorious.<br />
This is how they celebrated the feast,<br />
marking the beginning of the glorious journey<br />
of the Son of Man. There was not a single<br />
poor heart which did not rejoice; it barely<br />
understood the joy that reached its pinnacle.<br />
The downtrodden and forsaken could barely<br />
realize the meaning, yet they felt as if in a<br />
dream upon hearing the comforting words and<br />
upon feeling his merciful Hand on their<br />
troubled brow, on their shoulders, wounded<br />
by heavy burdens. The earth down below<br />
was in darkness, full of tears, blood<br />
and ugliness; however, that night, thousands<br />
and thousands of lights were lighted;<br />
countless flames wafted up, trembling and<br />
flickering and yearning towards heaven...<br />
Note: The description of the meaning of<br />
Christmas taken from Ivan Cankar’s novel<br />
Hiša Marije Pomočnice, translated by<br />
Cvetka Kocjančič.
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