The radicalism of the love of God that the Church celebrated at Christmas, contemplating the mystery of the Incarnation of the Verb, appears today with the total gift up to the profusion of the blood of the Protomartyr, Stephen. In the violent contrast between life and death, between the Christmas of Jesus and the martyrdom of Stephen, love emerges victorious: the love of God who gives himself to man, becoming a child to save him; the love of the disciple […]
Christmas time lasts almost a month in the Holy Land. After having celebrated the birth of Jesus on 25th December and having received two days later the greetings of the heads of the Orthodox Churches, the friars of the Custody of the Holy Land exchanged the gesture of courtesy on Monday 9th January, with the wishes for the Orthodox Christmas, celebrated on 7th January. It will then be the Armenian Orthodox Church of the Holy Land to celebrate Christmas and […]
