ATS Pro Terra Sancta – Newsletter 17/2010

Christmas 2010: the message of the Custos of the Holy Land Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa

“Peace and Good: St. Francis’s greeting helps us to enjoy the eternal novelty of Christmas, accompanying us towards the truth and keeping us away from everything that depreciates and make the meaning of this celebration ambiguous. Let’s not make vain this Christmas which comes for the umpteenth time  but which is always new. Because Christmas cannot fail to make us uncomfortable: it is a celebration that seems to have lost its most intimate and truest meaning, and that leads us to  wonder who that Child is for us, to see God in a child, to believe in a God who chooses to enclose his greatness in the smallness of our humanity.”(…)

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