Louis) was speaking to a group of his novices:"There is only one thing for anybody to become in life. There is a Louis Christ that must be brought into existence and hasn’t matured yet. "*There is a Louis Christ (a Thomas Merton Christ), a you Christ, a me Christ - each one of us is called and graced to be our true self - the self that God has made us to be. God has become what we are, what I am, so that I/we might become what God is (Irenaeus). The collect comes from the Leonine sacramentary where it is the collect of the first Christmas Mass (1239).