One.

The count is beginning. Will it be the commercial season this year or the sacred one? What will my practice be from now until the dawn of this ancient celebration of birth? Which winds will bear me home?

From Oscar Romero:
"No one can celebrate a genuine Christmas without being truly poor. The self-sufficient, the proud, those who, because they have everything, look down on others, those who have no need even of God--for them there will be no Christmas. Only the poor, the hungry, those who need someone to come on their behalf, will have that someone. That someone is God, Emmanuel, God-with-us. Without poverty of spirit there can be no abundance of God."