by ICL Editor | December 4, 2021 12:03 am
Image: “Bishop Fulton Sheen” by Fred Palumbo, World Telegram staff photographer[1] / Public domain
“There are two births of Christ, one unto the world in Beth- lehem; the other in the soul, when it is spiritually reborn. Men think of the former much more than the later, and celebrate it every year; but the spiritual Bethlehem is equally momentous…. It was the second birth that Saint Paul insisted on when he wrote from prison to his beloved people, the Ephesians, asking that Christ may dwell in their hearts by faith and that they be rooted and grounded in love. This is the second Bethlehem, or the personal relationship of the individual heart to the Lord Christ.” (Venerable Fulton J. Sheen, Rejoice!)
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