Christmas is approaching, a time when we remember the birth of our Savior. For us Catholics, celebrating this date has a very important meaning: to celebrate the miracle of the birth of Jesus Christ and the people's hope in God.

Father Eustáquio wrote extensively about this date. His texts contain precious teachings about experiencing Christmas. Let's reflect together on one of these texts:

“"Jesus Christ became the Son of Man, descended to this earth on this Christmas night. And soon the angels of heaven came, the forerunners of the great King, to announce his coming in the fields of Bethlehem, an announcement that would be made to all the people: A child wrapped in a swaddling cloth and lying in a manger.".

And then the angels sang: Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men of good will. Let us go to Bethlehem, but let us all go as brothers, without resentment, without hatred, without evil desires in our hearts; we too will visit the baby Jesus. Let us go to Bethlehem, but let us go with a humble heart, with a heart grateful for the redemption that came to us from so high, from so far away. Let us also go to Bethlehem, not to teach, but to learn from that child lying on the straw of the manger.

What we see is truly as the angels foretold: a child wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. Oh, what a child – what a child born in such great misery, without a house to live in, without a bed to lie on, but rags to keep warm. Tell me, my brothers, if the angels had not sung to us, who would believe that in that poor child was the child Jesus, the great God, the King of Kings? See the little one, born on straw among animals, speechless, with his tender, fragile limbs, trembling with cold…

What a marvel, he came to condemn himself voluntarily, out of love, to this physical impossibility, asking his mother for everything through the only language of all little children: tears. See him so charming in his Mother's arms, his little mouth sucking from her virginal breasts the blood that one day he will shed for us all.“

Text taken from one of Blessed Father Eustace's notebooks, cataloged by the restoration team, but without a date recorded.