"We need responsibility and hope. Now that every nun sees very well that pandemic is a real problem, we must feel responsible for everyone's health. Let us care for the vulnerable. The personal experience of illness and hospitalization sets the correct order of things and feelings. We owe a lot of attention", emphasizes in his message for the Christmas holiday the archbishop of Athens and all Greece Hieronymos and adds among other things:…….
"Let's not scandalize the brothers with uncritical behavior. Let us respect those who are perhaps too afraid. After all, who is the fate of fear?;
The Christian, Nevertheless, he is also a man of hope. Hope and faith in the divine Infant who allows the trial. Let fear not paralyze us".
in addition to, notes: "Furthermore, I invite you personally to pray separately for the heroes, the ascetics of this story. It's the doctors, the nurses, all workers in the ministry of the suffering. Throughout the length and breadth of the earth they are working the work of true charity. They forget that they exist so that we can exist. We thank them".
The message of the Primate of the Hellenic Church in detail:
My brothers and my children, dear Lord,
"The inseparable pandi… entered the stomach… and not in the ecstasy of nature, partake of the mother's garment".
The mystery of Bethlehem was then and always becomes a source of infinite donation to humanity. We are given to exist as God exists. And God is love and love comes from God. We wonder every year how we will live a real Christmas. Maybe this year with the tragedy, as it evolved, condition of the pandemic, we can reflect better, what does it really mean that God became man; That Pantokrator embraced weakness, the ultimate poverty and pain; That he experienced the scandal of abandonment and death;
Let us think that those of us who want to be His disciples are called in these difficult times to glorify His birth with the angels, to taste something of His omnipotence and at the same time share in His extreme humiliation. To live the certainty of His divinity with an excess of brotherly love, with deep humility* that which the Lord indicated in the desert condemning every mood of sensationalism and logical appropriation of the supernatural: "Ok tempt the Lord your God".
We need responsibility and hope. Now that every nun sees very well that pandemic is a real problem, we must feel responsible for everyone's health. Let us care for the vulnerable. The personal experience of illness and hospitalization sets the correct order of things and feelings. We owe a lot of attention.
Moreover, let us not scandalize the brothers with uncritical behavior. Let us respect those who are perhaps too afraid. After all, who is the fate of fear?;
But the Christian is also a person of hope. Hope and faith in the divine Infant who allows the trial. Let us not be paralyzed by fear.
Our life belongs to the Lord. He came out victorious and victorious. He will give the way out. He is life. It is a fact that communion with God and Worship provoke the forces of evil. Some take the opportunity to be disrespectful and offensive. Don't be afraid. Our answer p’ theirs will always be love. Love in truth. We will always strive for our Worship to be free. With respect to the joint effort and the health and safety rules, which we followed from the beginning, and with commitment to freedom of Faith.
My brothers and my children, dear Lord,
Σ’ this unexpected world war some were hurt more. They lost their own people. Our prayer for’ let them be our present this year at the feet of the Holy Infant.
I also invite you personally to pray separately for the heroes, the ascetics of this story. It's the doctors, the nurses, all workers in the ministry of the suffering. Throughout the length and breadth of the earth they are working the work of true charity. They forget that they exist so that we can exist. We are grateful to them.
My brothers,
The birth of Christ is the true charity. Let's be this year, in a more sacrificial way than before, bearers of the love that emanates from the Cave of Bethlehem. This love claims the whole world. I wish everyone a truly blessed Christmas!
Christ is born, glorified!