Gospel text (John 20,19-23): On the evening of that
day, the first day after the Sabbath, the doors were locked where the disciples
were, because of their fear of the Jews, but Jesus came and stood in their
midst. He said to them, «Peace be with you»; then He showed them his hands and
his side. The disciples kept looking at the Lord and were full of joy. Again
Jesus said to them, «Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send
you». After saying this He breathed on them and said to them, «Receive the Holy
Spirit; for those whose sins you forgive, they are forgiven; for those whose
sins you retain, they are retained».
Our God is all love and truth, who asks from us humility and forgiveness. Our God is the only living God. He has the word of eternal life. Observing the process of the current protests in the Middle East and many other places in the world by the so called followers of Islam, presumably outraged because they do not like what is being presented in a film about their prophet; it is interesting to distinguish that factual truth, about what is missing in the whole staging of these protests and it is precisely, truth, love, humility and forgiveness and it is not precisely from the ignorant mobs perpetrating the assaults under the direction of their evil leaders, but from the ones supposedly protecting the basic and fundamental freedoms we all in the western civilization which is founded in Christianity, have for granted.
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