The Blessing of Christmas

This beautifuly illustrated little book is ideal for the Advent and Christmas saeson with its inspiring, profound, yet popular meditations on the blessings of the season by Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI. 

These meditations by the acclaimed spiritual teacher, writer, and now Pontiff, give his fresh, unique insights into the deeper meaning of this most wonderous spiritual and human event, and show the Pope to be a man who knows how to speak both to the mind and the heart.  As he says in the book, his meditations "have one aim: to awaken that internal act of seeing which can perceive the truth in the words of Scripture: "The goodness and kindness of God our Savior has appeared."