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\"\"<\/a>The Word who became all things for us is close to us, our Lord Jesus Christ who promises to remain with us always. He cries out, saying: \u201cSee, I am with you all the days of this age.\u201d He is himself the shepherd, the high priest, the way and the door, and has become all things at once for us. In the same way, he has come among us as our feast and holy day as well. The blessed Apostle says of him who was awaited: \u201cChrist has been sacrificed as our Passover.\u201d It was Christ who shed his light on the psalmist as he prayed: \u201cYou are my joy, deliver me from those surrounding me.\u201d True joy, genuine festival, means the casting out of wickedness. To achieve this one must live a life of perfect goodness and, in the serenity of the fear of God, practise contemplation in one\u2019s heart.<\/span><\/p>\n


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