Thank you for becoming one like us; let us tonight become like you: children, that we may learn to see in all the love of your Father, even in the cold and loneliness of the night, like your first night made man.

May my heart be a complete Bethlehem, with each character of the mystery. May humility and confession prepare and arrange the manger in my heart. May my fidelity make it real in my heart. May my childlike love and my Mother's tenderness establish the proper lap for the Child.

He unveils his secrets and his mystery only to the simple of heart. As he did with Mary and Joseph, and as he has done throughout the centuries. He would also like to do so in my prayer today and every day, counting on my collaboration and teamwork.