December 26, 2024

Merry Christmas from the Sisters!

Let us all rejoice in the Lord,
for our Savior has been born in the world.
Today true peace has come down to us from heaven.

– Entrance Antiphon for Midnight Mass

We wish all our beloved family and friends a blessed and Merry Christmas! We wanted to share with you just a few glimpses of Christmas at Casa Maria, in these days so steeped in rich liturgy, when the rejoicing at God’s goodness cannot be contained! Let our joy overflow into everything we do, as we bring to the world the little Christ child who has come to earth.

A chorus of angels accompanied Mary and Joseph as they searched for shelter in our makeshift Bethlehem…
… and at last led Mary, Joseph, and all the faithful, to the place where they would find a welcome!

This year Sister Ave Maria painted this stunning icon to receive the infant Jesus under the altar:

Grant, O merciful God,
that, just as the Savior of the world, born this day,
is the author of divine generation for us,
so he may be the giver even of immortality.
Who lives and reigns for ever and ever.

– Prayer After Communion, Christmas Mass during the Day