The Nativity of our Savior, Jesus Christ, is emerging each year to remind us

on God infinite Mercy and Love for His entire Creation, and to call us for reflecting again on the sublime Sacrament of the Divine Incarnation, without which our salvation would not be possible.

Christmas should constitute, for all of us, an occasion of spiritual renewal,  a moment of meditation on our life, acts, behavior, and on our commitment to live in Christ.

Peace and joy had spread over earth on the moment the Divine Child appeared  in a humble cave. The pure hearted, humble shepherds were the persons who received Him, not the world powerful leaders.

Christmas is an invitation, for all of us, to contemplate on the heavenly message and to strive for peace, which is not, unfortunately, attainable nowadays, in the cradle of the Good News, in the land of Incarnation, and in many regions of our suffering, crucified world.

Images of massacre and destruction are shown and diffused every day, as well as images of dignity violation of the human being for whom the Glorified Son consented  to dwell among us, in order to restore our affiliation to the Father,  to enable us sitting with Him on the Judgment Day.

We pray Our Lord, on those honorable seasons of Christmas, the New Year and Epiphany, to grant us Peace and Stability,  obtaining the merit to praise God, acclaiming with the Angel:

" Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom His favor rests.”

Ignatius IV

Patriarch  of Antioch and All the East