Beautiful Christmas Message of US Bishops' President Archbishop Gomez "When we know Jesus everything else falls into a place we know how precious we are in the eyes of God."

Merry Christmas my brothers and sisters! In this beautiful season of joy I'm praying for each one of you in a special way. My prayer is that we open our hearts to the presence of Jesus in our daily life. Jesus is God with us Emmanuel and he promised to stay with us until the end of time. We can know Jesus and love Him and speak to Him just as Mary and Joseph did just as his disciples did. When we know Jesus everything else falls into a place we know how precious we are in the eyes of God. We know our purpose and our place in God's beautiful plan of love. Jesus came down from heaven on Christmas for us for you and for me if we take his son and walk with him and we allow Jesus to guide us if we try to live by his words and example we will find our days filled with love and peace and joy. We will find that the path we are walking will lead us to heaven. I'm praying for you my brothers and sisters please pray for me and let us ask our blessed mother Mary to awaken all of us a new awareness of God's standard love that Jesus might be born anew in our hearts as she was born from her on Christmas. Merry Christmas!