The faster and more clearly all the large illusions of this planet die—all the empty promises of internationalist, hedonist, technological, or therapeutic "paradise on earth"—the stronger and more clearly shines the only reliably certain guiding star that points the way to the place of the birth of the Lord. In this place, where the fullest and most profound encounter of Paradise with the earth has been revealed, anyone can find an inexhaustible origin of the most reliable promises: immensely demanding, but besides infinitely rewarding.
Let the deepened reflection on these very promises—so timelessly solid and refreshing, especially in the light of the ever-suffering flood of always more cheaply atraps of happiness and salvation—allows as many people to renew in themselves the determination "to be perfect as our Heavenly Father is perfect," which is an attainable condition of things precisely due to the fact that the boy of God has purposed to lift up the polluted human nature by uniting it with its incorruptible divine nature. For anyone who wants to contemplate this fact especially carefully in the coming days, these days will be unfailingly joyful and solemn in the deepest sense of these words – which remains to everyone's heartfelt wish. Gaudete, Christus est natus!
Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewskiand
