Christmas messages...
These excerpts from the respective Christmas messages, struck a chord with me...For Christians this festival of Christmas is the time to remember the birth of the one we call the 'prince of peace' and our source of 'light and life' in both good times and bad. It is not always easy to accept his teaching, but I have no doubt that the new year will be all the better if we do but try.
Celebrating Christmas was important, he continued, because it marked the anniversary of the moment when human history changed. "Because of the difference Jesus makes, a world in which the sanctity of life as an alien concept has given way to one in which the landscape has changed," he said. "You may or may not believe what Christian doctrine says about the child in the manger but you will, consciously or not, be looking at the human world in a framework that Jesus Christ made possible."
He also warned of the need for vigilance against the loss of what Christianity brought. "If we ever do come to forget not just the Christmas story but what it made possible ... the arrival of a different humanity, there is enough, sadly, in our idle and self-obsessed hearts to let the ancient world begin to creep back a little more."
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