fr: excerpted from bsp. thomas wenski (2007 dec 25). "celebrating god's gift of love." [section: bishops speak]. http://www.catholicexchange.com/node/68390
"A world without God, Pope Benedict tells us in "Spe Salvi," is a world without hope. Such a world is a world grown cold - and dark. And such is the world of those who would live without God; or, worse, against God.
"Yet, because of that child wrapped in swaddling clothes, surrounded by animals and ignorant shepherds, we dare to hope. "Christ does not save us from our humanity, but through it; he does not save us from the world, but he came into the world, so that through him the world might be saved" (Pope Benedict XVI, "Urbi et Orbi," 2006).
"In the birth of Christ, the hope of mankind is restored. For this reason, at Christmas - more than any other time of the year - we can look toward the future with renewed confidence. Despite our sinfulness, despite our greed, our pride, our lust, our envy - these things that are at the root of human misery, poverty and war -we are not lost. God refuses to give up on his creation: It was through love he created us; and in love we are redeemed."
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