Gospel text (John 10,22-30): The time came for the
feast of the Dedication. It was winter and Jesus walked back and forth in the
portico of Solomon. The Jews then gathered around him and said to him, «How
long will you keep us in doubt? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly». Jesus
answered, «I have already told you but you do not believe. The works I do in my
Father's name proclaim who I am, but you don't believe because, as I said, you
are not my sheep. My sheep hear my voice and I know them; they follow me and I
give them eternal life. They shall never perish and no one will ever steal them
from me. What the Father has given me is stronger than everything and no one
can snatch it from the Father's hand. I and the Father are one».
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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