A Christmas salutation

This greeting is one that we have learned over the years at the Christmas Revels. It offers our gifts for each and everyone this Christmas season.

I Salute You

There is nothing I can give you which you have not; but there is much that I, while I cannot give, you can take.

No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today.
Take Heaven.

No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present instant.
Take Peace.

The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, yet within our reach is joy.
Take Joy.

And so, at this Christmas time, I greet you with the prayer that for you, now and forever, the day breaks and the shadows flee away.

—Fra Giovanni