Gospel
text (Luke 2,16-21):
The shepherds came hurriedly and found Mary and Joseph with the baby lying in
the manger. On seeing this they related what they had been told about the
child, and all were astonished on hearing the shepherds. As for Mary, she
treasured all these messages and continually pondered over them. The shepherds
then returned giving glory and praise to God for all they had heard and seen,
just as the angels had told them. On the eighth day the circumcision of the
baby had to be performed; he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him
before he was conceived.
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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