Remember Fitz

LETTER FROM FITZ - 1978

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If there is one symbol of faith that binds the years of our lives together, joining the Decembers of childhood to the Decembers of young adulthood and middle age, it is the seasonal Christmas tree. 

 

We may grow cold in the practice of the Christian faith; cynicism may make us skeptical of messages of brotherhood preached by angels in the night sky over Bethlehem; we may have developed thick crusts to protect ourselves from the responsibility of loving and caring about others. 

 

Then, suddenly, we are caught off-guard, into a surrender to grace, by the beauty of a Christmas tree with the balmy scent of its branches touching our senses and the dark green boughs hung with tinsel and light touching our blindness. 

 

With the stirring of memory deep within us, we remember an ancient birth that makes all of us children once again.

 

(Robert Griffin, CSC)

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