Merry Christmas from the Cloister!

With joy and gratitude, we are sending you our prayers and love for a very happy, healthy, and holy Christmas!

Saint Leo the Great reminded us of the reason for our rejoicing:

Our Savior, dearly beloved, was born this day. Let us rejoice. No, there cannot rightly be any room for sorrow in a place where life has been born. By dispelling fear of death, life fills us with joy about the promised eternity.

…dearly beloved, let us give “thanks to God the Father” through his Son, in the Holy Spirit. “Because of that great love of his with which he loved us,” he took pity on us, “and, when we were dead through our sins, he brought us to life through Christ,” so that we might be a “new creature” in him, a new handiwork. “Let us therefore put aside the old human being along with its actions.” Since we have become sharers in the Birth of Christ, let us renounce “works of the flesh.”

Excerpt of the translation taken from Aquinas 101.

Deo Gratias!