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Let us propose to ourselves some practices relative to this holy season and which will be proof of our love for this Child, whose Nativity we are about to celebrate.
Let all our spiritual exercises be homage and adoration that we render to Jesus Christ and through Him to His father.Redouble our zeal that this Mystery of his birth may be renewed in us and work the effects of grace and salvation that God expects. All the mysteries of our religion require that we should prepare for them; and we receive the graces in proportion to our preparation.
The great secret of preparing for them is to enter into the spirit of the mystery, to study the disposition of Jesus Christ and to conform to it.
Our hearts have the most need of preparation; all depends on this. May our hearts become so obedient as to have no other will than that of our Savior, so poor, as to desire nothing and be attached to nothing, so patient as not to be cast down by any misfortune or embittered by any affliction, so humble, that they not be elevated by any advantage either temporal or spiritual.