The Light of the East December 1941

They rose before the Crib and smiled ; The miracle was done ; Each rose and smiled and walked away— And each walked with a Son ! MYLES CONNOLLY in America 111=m=111=i11:-...111=Ilt=111=Iil=i11=111=iti=i11=111=III=III=111=111=111=111=iii=111=i11=111=111=111=111 The Editor and the Manager of THE LIGHT OF THE EAST wish every reader a HAPPY CHRISTMAS and GOD'S BLESSING on the coming year. [...] After the life of Christ I undertook the reading of lives of the Saints of the Cathlic Church such as the Little Plower St. [...] The sight of the beautiful statues and the stations of the Cross; the altar with its decorations and above all the peace that prevailed inside the church moved my heart very 187"deeply. [...] Three main causes seem to have contributed to the advent of intolerance : first the natural intolerance of believing masses a phenomenon notced throughout history and all the world over ; secondly the revival of Roman pgan law first at the end of Constantine's reign and then in the XIIth century ; and finally the birth of heresies which threaened not only the Christian Faith but all [...] Finally in the bitterness of the fight it was forgotten that the comand to love and serve God is inseparable from the precept of charity to the neigbour.