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Dear Young People, Christ Asks You To Be Wide Awake And Alert, To See The Things In Life That Really Matter.

Faith Is Not A Light Which Scatters All Our Darkness, But A Lamp Which Guides Our Steps In The Night And Suffices For The Journey.

Only Trust In God Can Transform Doubts Into Certainty, Evil Into Good, Night Into Radiant Dawn.

Who Are We, As We Stand Before The Child Jesus? Who Are We, Standing As We Stand Before Today's Children? Are We Like Mary And Joseph, Who Welcomed Jesus And Cared For Him With The Love Of A Father And A Mother? Or Are We Like Herod, Who Wanted To Eliminate Him? Are We Like The Shepherds, Who Went In Haste To Kneel Before Him In Worship And Offer Him Their Humble Gifts? Or Are We Indifferent?

It Is Difficult To Judge The Past By The Criteria Of The Present.