THE TIME CAME FOR HER TO HAVE HER CHILD 

While they were there, the time came for her to have her child, and she gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. (Luke 2,6-7).

This is my last day of the novena, like Mary, the time has come for me to receive Jesus, not in my arms as his Mother, but in my heart. 

How do I feel? Am I ready? 

I prepare the little manger of my heart. I want to receive him with simplicity, with humility, with warmth. 

Mary and Joseph will accompany me. 

He will come to me to stay, to transform my heart, to make me his instrument, so that I can bring, to everyone, this good news that our Savior continues to be in the world, in me.