Vatican Museums. And the Word became Flesh #7

“With ever renewed gladness and piety, beloved children of the entire universe, with Christmas each year, there resounds from the stable of Bethlehem reaching Christians’ ears, and sweetly echoing in their hearts, the message of Jesus, Light in the midst of darkness. With the splendour of heavenly truth, this message enlightens a world shrouded in tragic error; it infuses an exuberant and confident joy into humanity, distressed by profound and bitter sadness; it proclaims liberty to the children of Adam held captive in the chains of sin and guilt; it promises mercy, love, peace to the infinite hosts of those who are suffering tribulation, who have seen their happiness shattered and their energy battered in the storm of hatred and the strife of these turbulent days!”