How to find Christmas peace in a world of unrest?
You cannot find peace on the outside but you can find peace on the inside, by letting God do to your soul what Mary let Him do to her body, namely, let Christ be formed in you.
As she cooked meals in her Nazarene home, as she nursed her aged cousin, as she drew water at the well, as she prepared the meals of the village carpenter, as she knitted the seamless garment, as she kneaded the dough and swept the floor, she was conscious that Christ was in her; that she was a living Ciborium, a monstrance of the Divine Eucharist, a Gate of Heaven through which a Creator would peer upon creation, a Tower of Ivory up whose chaste body He was to climb "to kiss upon her lips a mystical rose."As He was physically formed in her, so He wills to be spiritually formed in you.
If you knew He was seeing through your eyes, you would see in every fellowman a child of God.
If you knew that He worked through your hands, they would bless all the day through.
If you knew He spoke through your lips, then your speech, like Peter's, would betray that you had been with the Galilean.
If you knew that He wants to use your mind, your will, your fingers, and your heart, how different you would be.
If half the world did this there would be no war!- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
"The Eucharist began at Bethlehem in Mary's arms. It was she who brought to humanity the Bread for which it was famishing, and which alone can nourish it. She it was who took care of that Bread for us. It was she who nourished the Lamb whose life-giving Flesh we feed upon,"
- St. Peter Julian Eymard
"The shepherds - simple souls - came to adore the Infant Savior. Mary rejoiced at seeing their homage and willing offerings they made to her Jesus... How happy is the loving soul when it has found Jesus with Mary, His Mother! They who know the Tabernacle where He dwells, they who receive Him into their souls, know that His conversation is full of divine sweetness, His consolation ravishing, His peace superabundant, and the familiarity of His love and His Heart ineffable,"
- St. Peter Julian Eymard
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