“I wish that we should be much taken up, this Advent, with thanking our Lord for His admirable Incarnation and coming into this world. Let us not be ungrateful for this. Behold, it is the Lord who comes to extend over us the greatness of His mercies. Let us give Him our love; let us adore Him and thank Him with all our soul, and He will be satisfied.”

(Exhortation 1, 1629)