“Let this year’s Christmas tree, as a great 20th-century writer wrote, an opportunity not just for nostalgia, but for struggle. We need to struggle for the justice and the overthrow of the sinful establishment around and within us. Let us not capitulate to the forces of evil. Let us see Christ’s face in our neighbor, the hungry, the foreign, the prisoner, the sick. Let us also recognize the beauty of the world around us, visible and hidden. Let this Christmas be a chance for true worship. Let us broaden our inner horizons,” Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and all Greece said in his Christmas message.
He also emphasizes that the purpose of our creation was to let God in our heart. With the birth of Christ, we achieve our purpose, we become true. His deification is His truth.
Today, people feel that the power of evil often intermingles with human greatness.
Small and large scale tragedies; egoism and arrogance are a common factor. And with all this, armies of uprooted and deceived people who incessantly move in search of hope. Immigrants and refugees, including unaccompanied children, become the problem and crisis for all of us, disrupting and risking their lives, victims of the very interests and the powerful nations on earth.
I would like to tell our fellow human beings: Do not forget that God is by your side you in this long and adventurous journey.
Let’s be by the side of the victor of History. My brothers!
As evil is absurd, so Christmas is unthinkable without Christ. I wish everyone a merry and blessed Christmas!