immeasurable love

"This, my dear ones, is the great and universal community of all Christians, of the whole Church, of all of us who on this night live once again the birth of God into this world. We break and share the bread, exchanging the same wishes as those expressed by the angels that night in Bethlehem: 'Glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth to men and women of goodwill".

Tonight we are all of us overwhelmed and dumbfounded in the face of the divine love which took on human flesh and entered into the human spirit. We compare our miserable human love with his immeasurable love, and we pray that love may grow within us, that it may never be extinguished despite any difficulties or obstacles, and that it may never dim but always grow stronger".

Karol Wojtyla
Archbishop of Krakow
Midnight Mass, 1969