Gospel
text (John 1,29-34): John
saw Jesus coming towards him and said, «There is the Lamb of God, who takes
away the sin of the world. It is he of whom I said: ‘A man comes after me who
is already ahead of me, for he was before me’. I myself did not know him, but I
came baptizing to prepare for him, so that he might be revealed in Israel». And
John also gave this testimony, «I saw the Spirit coming down on him like a dove
from heaven and resting on him. I myself did not know him but God who sent me
to baptize told me: ‘You will see the Spirit coming down and resting on the one
who baptizes with the Holy Spirit’. Yes, I have seen! and I declare that this
is the Chosen One of God».
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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