This year I attended the Christmas novena in our parish begins at dawn. During that time when night and day come together and the spirit is conducive to meditation. Our pastor has decided to offer our daily food for thought by reading some excerpts from "Meditations for the Christmas novena", the Cardinal Archbishop Angelo Comastri author of many religious texts including the meditations for the Via Crucis on behalf of Pope Benedict Sixteenth. These words struck me so much that I decided to express my best wishes through a brief anthology of writings by this author.
I wish you all a holy Christmas.
Nicola De Silla
"The goodness of God does not have an easy life for men. The story of the God-man relationship is marked by a struggle to the blood: a struggle made possible by the weakness of God. And what is the weakness of God?
The weakness of God is his goodness, his mercy, his burning desire to love and save.
God is so good and will always respect human freedom because freedom is possible only in love. And the botanical of God has come to conceive of the extremism of the Incarnation: God became man in human language to translate his infinite love. "
"We must honestly admit that the birth of Jesus is one of the Christian Mysteries at greater risk of misunderstanding: the fact Christmas is celebrated in a secular society that invented the 'Anti-Christmas consumerism and pleasure. Curzio Malaparte noticed that proprosito wrote: "I wish on Christmas panettone became flesh sore under our knife and the wine becomes blood and all we had for a moment the horror of the world in my mouth ... I would like the Christmas Eve all the churches in the world a poor priest levasse crying away from that cradle of hypocritical liars go home to weep over the cradles of your children. If the world is also suffering because of you that do not dare to defend justice and goodness and you're afraid of being a Christian until the end ... This child born to save the world abhors you.. ""
"What a beautiful Christmas, is the great and the good news that we as a fire guard must not be extinguished, like a light that must always enlighten. In this happy night, someone will open the door to accommodate a poor. It is the door of Bettemme, the gateway to the heart of God who has made it on, came up as a child.
What a great story that is the great story Natl. And 'the only story that resists time. But a party while we thought my heart hurts me: it is night and night out, even now, many runners looking run. But what do they seek? Looking for happiness, they say, but surely do not find Bruce Bruce and continue to seek the years. To put it as Joseph Prezzolini: "Here I am at the end of my year, alone, tired, desperate, without someone to tell me where I come from and where I go.." We Christians know that happiness exists and has an address. Happiness is called Bettlemme Bettlemme why is the house of God I pray to my knees, I pray for your happiness Bettlemme we go, we open our hearts to our brothers, we hold hands with those who are near, we make opsitale our home, our environment, our work, our country, our very city, our world. And 'only in the way of love that we can to experience God in God will find the peace that we lack. "
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