Merry Christmas - Hope Alive
by Deacon Thomas Frankenfield
Hope Has Come
A Child is born! The Savior is here among us! My brothers and sisters-Merry Christmas!Together our Catholic Christian community has journeyed through another Advent of waiting. Now the time is here for the Christ Child to wash away our troubles and to set us free. What is the state of the world that this Christ Child enters? It is a world dealing with unshakable wars; unrelenting suffering; relentless hatred, unprecedented loneliness and most sadly by religious and ethnic conflict. In the Western world, where God has blessed people with abundance beyond anything in the history of humankind, what do we see crime in every sector, most sadly in the school; drugs and alcohol ruin lives, families and societies and the bearers of light-churches, even fight corruption; disillusionment and most sadly, the unspeakable violation of our children.
Yes, the Christ Child comes to a darkened world! The Christ Child is here with HOPE!
So, in the midst of this brokenness we ask, "Where is our hope today?" Is it wrapped up in a present under a tree? Has it vanished into the pain and suffering that surrounds your life? As we have chatted about and discussed on this wonderful blog over the years. Jesus, the Savior is our hope-today in the Christ Child and always to those who receive Him!
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