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00:02 The time of Advent is coming to an end. The fourth Sunday of Advent is also the day of Christmas Eve. Advent is a time of joyful anticipation. Anticipation for Christmas, for a new life. For a new life, I would say, for life, for our life. Because Christ is born for us, for our salvation, for our redemption. It is a great joy for every Christian.
00:30 Just like at home, in families, we expect a child for Christmas. Great joy, positive emotions accompany us. We prepare a house, we prepare a room, equipment for the room, various things needed for care in the care home.
00:49 And all this, just sharing emotions, the joy of a new life that we expect. And this is the time of Advent. Joyful anticipation for the birth of a divine child for us. A new life for our new life in the divine realities of heaven.
01:13 Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve is the time of these four weeks of Advent. Christmas Eve in Latin means vigilance, night vigilance, vigilance of the guard.
01:24 The Christian Church takes this beautiful term referring to the evening before this special celebration, before this special event for us, Christmas.
01:39 This is the vigilance, vigilance of the family for the divine family. A special evening of vigilance, sitting in the family group, to this Christmas Eve table. And the day after tomorrow, a beautiful, huge celebration of God's birth, the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, this expected Messiah, Savior of the human race.
02:05 On the other hand, the second holiday, we commonly call it the holiday of St. Stephen, the martyrdom of St. Stephen. He gave his life for faith, for Christ, being born into heaven.
02:20 Therefore, the advocate of the celebration of God's birth, St. Stephen is born into heaven. Hence the beautiful second day of Christmas. It is St. Stephen's holiday. In this spirit of God's birth, we celebrate, we worship.
02:37 Dear ones, as guardians of this place, the Sanctuary of St. Jadwiga, we wish you a good time, a divine time, so that this divine time will bring a lot of joy, peace, kindness, openness to yourself, because we have ourselves for ourselves.
03:01 The new lives that give us the Christmas of God's birth are for us, so that we can give ourselves something new, a life for others, for those for whom we are responsible, in our services, in the marriage life, family life, in the religious life, in the priesthood life.
03:23 Let us be this Christ's light for others, for those for whom we are, for whom we serve every day.
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