Gospel
text (Mathew 16,24-28): Jesus
said to his disciples, «If you want to follow me, deny yourself, take up your
cross and follow me. For whoever chooses to save his life will lose it, but the
one who loses his life for my sake will find it. What will one gain by winning
the whole world if he destroys himself? There is nothing you can give to
recover your own self. Know that the Son of Man will come in the Glory of his
Father with the holy angels, and He will reward each one according to his
deeds. Truly, I tell you, there are some here who will not die before they see
the Son of Man coming as king».
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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