Dear Friends,   "O Eternal Word of the Father, Son of God and of Mary, renew in our hearts the miracle of your birth.  Clothe again with immortality the children You have redeemed, enkindle our love, bind all in Your Mystical Body."                --Pope John XIII   "The Word was the true light that enlightens all men; and he was coming into the world."               --John 1: 9   Mary, Mother of the Word, pray for us.