Christmas and the Self

[John Zeger]

"The very thing which is now called the Christian religion existed
among the ancients also, nor was it wanting from the inception of the
human race until the coming of Christ in the flesh, at which point the
true religion, which was already in existence, began to be called
Christian. -- St. Augustine

"Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of
God dwells in you?" -- 1 Corinthians 3:16

"Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born,
But not within thyself, thy soul will be forlorn;
The cross on Golgotha thou lookest to in vain
Unless within thyself it be set up again."
-- Angelus Silesius (1624-1677)