Our God has given his Son to the earth, a Father's love h as brought Christmas to birth. Life now unfolds in the light of the day, Jesus is present, the feast is to stay. He holds the future, the present, the past; the fact of Christmas was given to last. Let us then see in the coming of Christ: love is the gift and the church is the feast. Of incarnation the church is the sign, the given token of hope for mankind, bringing us under the good of its spell: God is among us, each day is noel.