Karl Rahner is said to have closed a Christmas sermon with the words quoted below. I know it’s not Christmas but they seem to fit in the waning days of Lent as well:
“God has entrusted his last, deepest, and most beautiful word to the world, in the Word made flesh. This Word says: I love you world, man and woman. I am there. I am with you. I am your life. I am your time. I weep your tears. I am your joy. Do not be afraid. When you do not know how to go any further, I am with you. I am in your anguish, because I suffered it myself. I am in your need and your death, because today I began to live and to die with you. I am your life. I promise you: for you, too, life is waiting. For you, too, the gates will open.”
Something for me to reflection on, on this Saint Patrick’s day.