must be young to understand the mystery of Christmas
It desecrates ever Christmas by making it a commercial holiday where you just think feasting and exchanging expensive gifts. What a pity! For Christmas is a new amazing, a wonderful event: it is God who comes to meet man. Because it is love, God descends in some sort of height and is one of us. The fragility of a toddler, he just hide the treasure of a life in which he wants to rebuild the whole humanity. Through the eyes of a child, he tells us the immeasurable value of every human life whatsoever.
Christmas, so it is primarily a call to recognize and uphold the dignity of the most vulnerable: the young child in the womb, the sick or disabled, the old end of life. Because they are vulnerable, precisely, they are demanding from us more attention and kindness, they are simply asking to be welcomed and loved for who they are. It's so important to repeat. Because our society is full of great inventions, scientific and technological wealth, our company has all the materials needed and who is at the top of modernity is however a company that is afraid of disability and vulnerability. This explains that the temptation of eugenics and euthanasia has never been as pervasively present today. However, a company that no longer respects the dignity of the person, a company that refuses to welcome the vulnerability, a company that ultimately threatens the life of the weakest is a company that could at any time to switch into inhumanity and barbarism.
exchange our gifts, live joyously celebrate! Yes! But do not forget the innumerable small and unloved that our society does not. Happy Christmas to all!
Christmas, so it is primarily a call to recognize and uphold the dignity of the most vulnerable: the young child in the womb, the sick or disabled, the old end of life. Because they are vulnerable, precisely, they are demanding from us more attention and kindness, they are simply asking to be welcomed and loved for who they are. It's so important to repeat. Because our society is full of great inventions, scientific and technological wealth, our company has all the materials needed and who is at the top of modernity is however a company that is afraid of disability and vulnerability. This explains that the temptation of eugenics and euthanasia has never been as pervasively present today. However, a company that no longer respects the dignity of the person, a company that refuses to welcome the vulnerability, a company that ultimately threatens the life of the weakest is a company that could at any time to switch into inhumanity and barbarism.
exchange our gifts, live joyously celebrate! Yes! But do not forget the innumerable small and unloved that our society does not. Happy Christmas to all!
+ Bishop Thierry Scherrer
Bishop of Laval
Bishop of Laval
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