Object: A large envelope with a wax seal.

Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you can keep a secret? I want to know if you can keep a secret for a long time. It isn’t so hard to keep a secret for a little while, but to keep a secret for a long time like a week or a month is almost impossible. I know how hard it is for some people to keep secrets about birthdays or Christmas gifts and things like that, so you can imagine how hard it must be to keep a secret as wonderful as the secret that God had for people in the world.

Suppose that you were St. Paul, and you had a secret that most of the people in the world knew nothing about, but you were chosen to be the one to tell it. Doesn’t that sound like fun? I have the secret in …