3 Responses to Glory to the New Born King

1. kaysee says:

   December 25, 2024 at 5:02 pm

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   Adoration of the Shepherds

   This is Dutch painter Gerard van Honthorst’s religious masterpiece which was painted in 1622 when he was 30 years of age.
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   Did Mary know?

   
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2. kaysee says:

   December 25, 2024 at 5:06 pm

   2024 Christmas Message of Bishop Antoine-Charbel Tarabay, Maronite Bishop of Australia, New Zealand and Oceania.

   The birth of the Lord Jesus is the birth of peace

   Christmas reminds us every year that true and lasting peace comes only through the teachings and the person of Jesus Christ. His Birth brought two dimensions of peace; horizontal peace, reconciling humans with one another, especially those who believe in His holy name, and vertical peace, reconciling humanity with God through His Incarnation, Death, and Resurrection…..

   As peacemakers, we must amplify the voices of the voiceless, especially innocent children suffering from hunger, thirst, and deprivation, the elderly and disabled abandoned and forgotten, and the displaced who have lost, overnight, their homes and security…

   
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3. kaysee says:

   December 25, 2024 at 7:09 pm

   Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa
   Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem

   Bethlehem, Christmas 2024
   Homily for Midnight Mass

   Over the past few weeks, I have asked myself several times how to live with this burden and even more so how to leave it behind. I have struggled with the unpleasant feeling that words, even faith-based ones, are useless when faced with the harshness of reality and a suffering that plainly seems to have no end in sight….

   That is why I too chose once again to listen to the Christmas story, within the suffering in which we find ourselves, a context not so very different from the one of that time….

   The nativity of the Lord is all about this: in His Son, the Father personally gets involved in our history and bears its burdens, He shares our sufferings and tears to the point of bloodshed and offers us a way out filled with life and hope….

   
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