Quoted in English from: http://ebrael.info/2014/12/23/natal-uma-promessa-renovada/

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I have not anything new to write here about Christmas (#xmas), as a catholic, unless that it’s the renewing of the Memory of Verb of God’s Incarnation amongst the Human Beings. The Son of God, consubstantial to Him, becomes a Man, incarnates, tastes the life of His creature, in order to save us and to show us the Path to the Heaven, blocked up by slough of sins of all that Mankind.

But, first of all, I should remember that, like Easter, which is the summit of the Redemption (Passion, Death and Resurrection of Our Lord), Christmas is also the fulfillment of a Promise. Therefore, even at Christmas, at the visible and clear symbol of the God-Child, we are faced with the fulfillment of a Promise, a sublime Promise. The Speech Itself, the Verb, is a Promise. The Speech of God did assume in himself and acomplish what it sent from Him forth just before the World Foundation, and that is the meaning of Promissio.

Every time our mouths speak out, we solemnly launch to Fate a Promise, we sow, we send our word. We breed, as it were, to light a tiny Christmas. It is up to us, imperfect beings, to live our Christian vocation. Before the Altar, as we give faith of our Baptism on Confirmation, we also launch our Promises, we taste the Christmas of the Holy Spirit in ourselves.

May the Speech from our lips, inspired by “yes” of our Most Blessed Mother, to make shine the Light of the World upon the faces of our neighbours and, with itself, to inflamate for the defense of the Truth and Life, up to their ultimate conditions, for the Most Glory of God.

Happy and Holy Christmas to all men and women of good will, beloved by God, our Father!

In Corde Jesu, semper! By Heart of Jesus, forever!