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Four weeks to cross the continents

and oceans to a town that is transformed

by twenty centuries of troubled times.

Four weeks in which to travel down

the weary corridors, two thousand years

of looking back and looking forward.

Four weeks for tramping the harsh pathways

of the shopping malls trying to buy the one gift

that has never been for sale.

Four weeks to light four candles

in the sanctuary of the heart, and then

a fifth one to illuminate the heart of God.

Four weeks for learning mystery, for turning

darkness toward light, for yearning, day

by day, toward that burning flame of welcome

that kindles there within the waiting manger.