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     The Christmas story...each 
     
     year we listen to it; read 
     
     it; sing about it. In the 
     
     midst of all this do we eVer 
     
     stop to think seriously abs 
     
     out how old the story is and 
     
     yet it never seems old at 
     
     all. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Everyone likes a good story. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A good story, of con 13a, is 
     
     entertaining, but it also 
     
     tells us something. It gives 
     
     us insight. It puts into 
     
     words something we have 
     
     thought or felt. 
     
    

    
     Christmas is not just the 
     
     star; it is also the cross 
     
     and the empty tomb. Without 
     
     the latter the former would 
     
     never have been remembered. 
     
     The central Christian belief 
     
     is that Jesus' death is the 
     
     Centml clue to his life — 
     
     arOund everything else we 
     
     know can be gathered sensi— 
     
     bly. We do not know how his— 
     
     tory Will end; but we can be 
     
     Sure that it will be in ar— 
     
     greement with the cross. The 
     
     world may reject Jesus; but 
     
     We Can be sure that it is 
     
     eventually judged by his 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     stature. Pride and lust and 
     
     falsehood may play the very 
     
     devil with the power in hu— 
     
     man hands; but the last man 
     
     to control power will be the 
     
     one with a clean heart and‘ 
     
     clean hands and whose word 
     
    
   
   
    
     .is as good as thei1:bond. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Christmas story is a 
     
    

    
     love story: its authOr is 
     
     love, its plot is love, its 
     
     fulfillment is love. In Je— 
     
     sus} birth, life, teachings, 
     
     and death, and resurrection 
     
     we have the fulfillment of 
     
     the love of God. 
     
    

    
     As the students, faculty, 
     
     and staff who make up this 
     
     university community let us 
     
     not be satisfied with simply 
     
     exchanging verbal pleasant- 
     
     ries at this season. As we 
     
     look forward to the new year 
     
     1976 may the love and peace 
     
     of Christmas be formost in 
     
     all our activities. 
     
    
   
   
    
     and Bren Megp ninety- 
     
    
   
   
    
     It seems riciduously early 
     
     ...the first wee in Advent.. 
     
     to be expressing Christmas 
     
     greetings. But this IS the 
     
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     before the holiday season 
     
    
   
   
    
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     and so it is now or never. 
     
     Had there been more time, 
     
     both of us chaplians would 
     
     have preferred to issue a 
     
     joint message instead of two 
     
     separate statements. We cer— 
     
     tainingly are not addressing 
     
     our words to our constituents 
     
     but rather to every student 
     
     on campus. 
     
    

    
     Perhaps it is a little for— 
     
     tunate that we were not afrt 
     
     forded the time to prepare a 
     
     joint greeting. This way I 
     
     am able to be a little more 
     
     personal and expiess senti— 
     
     ments not possible in'a gen- 
     
     eral letter. In wishing all 
     
     U.P.E.I. students a holy and 
     
     happy Christmas, I wish at 
     
     the same time to thank you 
     
     for making me so welcome on 
     
     campus. I arrived here in 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘September very very homesick 
     
    
   
   
    
     for the University of Wind- 
     
     sor campus where I had spent 
     
     two happy years as chaplain. 
     
     The genuine friendliness of 
     
     every student I met right 
     
     from the start made me real— 
     
     122 that perhaps I would not 
     
     die of lonliness after all! 
     
     One lassie soon after my 
     
     arrival, I recall, helped me 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     to announce my first Mass on 
     
     campus by making for me fif— 
     
     teen signs. Only after that 
     
     did I discover that I had 
     
     made (or thought I had made) 
     
     a real booboo. She wasn't a 
     
     Mick at all{ This kindness 
     
     shown a complete stranger is 
     
     not easily forgotten and I 
     
     have found this friendly 
     
     readiness to help to be a 
     
     charaxteristic of U.P.E.I. 
     
     students in general. Nice to 
     
     be around! 
     
    

    
     My Christmas wish for you, 
     
     you paper—and—exam harried 
     
     undergraduate who has not 
     
     yet had time to give Christ— 
     
     mas a thought - my Christ— 
     
     mas wish for you is that you 
     
     never lose this spirit of 
     
     openess and generosity. My, 
     
     hope for you is that you 
     
     will bring this spirit away 
     
     from U.P.E.I. out into gov— 
     
     ernment, business, education, 
     
     the ministry, religious life, 
     
     social work. . .mar riage — 
     
     whatever - and so,in the 
     
     words of the Coca Cola carol 
     
     ;4 fill the world with love. 
     
    

    
     May God bless you, your 
     
     brothers, sisters and frien— 
     
     ds at Christmas and all thr- 
     
     ough the year to come.