When the nails were being driven into Jesus to fix him on the cross, Jesus heard the voice of the Father saying, “All life is one, My dear Son. Be alike to everyone,” and he pleaded that those who were crucifying him may be pardoned for they knew not what they did. Jesus sacrificed himself for the sake of mankind. Carols and candles, readings from the Bible and acting out the incidents that surrounded His Birth, are not enough to celebrate the birth of Jesus. Jesus said that the bread taken in the ‘last supper’ was his flesh, and the wine, his blood. He meant that all beings alive with flesh and blood are to be treated as he himself and that no distinction should be made of friend or foe, we or they. Everybody is his body, sustained by the bread; every drop of blood flowing in the veins of every living being is his, animated by the activity that the wine imparted to it. That is to say, every man is Divine and has to be revered as such! – Divine Discourse, Dec 25, 1978.