Christmas

It's Christmas but there's nothing festive or merry about it. No festivities. Only Masses were celebrated and in sombre mood. There is so much pain and suffering, so much fear and death ... no one in living memory has celebrated a Christmas like this year.

I can only repeat the prayer at the mixing of water and wine during Offertory "May we come to share in His divinity as he humbled himself to share in our humanity" Christmas is God becoming man so that man can become like God ... perhaps in all this suffering in our land, we may taste the comfort of God's divinity

The Nativity scene at Manger Square in Bethlehem this year