Christmas: What expectations and longings this feast evokes from every heart of good will. The light of the star of Bethlehem falls on all people God became man for everyone. Throughout twenty centuries our most profound thinkers have pondered the meaning of that night in Bethlehem, that unique event in human history. This book contains some of those thoughts, glimmers from that Star that will always shine. With contributions by: Saint Augustine, Benedict XVI, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, Leonardo Boff, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Catherine of Siena, Hildegard of Bingen, John Paul II, Chiara Lubich, Fulton J. Sheen, Edith Stein, and many others.