This year, I wish for Christmas to take on a very particular savour and meaning for us, because it comes in the middle of the year of preparation for the great Gathering at Fatima 2018.\u00a0 Christmas is much more than the feast of the anniversary of Jesus\u2019 birthday!\u00a0 We celebrate the mystery of the incarnation!\u00a0 Two thousand years ago, the Son of God touched our history and this contact changed, from within, the meaning of space and time.\u00a0 History henceforward had a \u2018before\u2019 and an \u2018after\u2019 Jesus Christ\u2019s birth.\u00a0 St Leo the Great, in a Christmas sermon, invites us to rediscover the meaning of our dignity.\u00a0 The value of each person is measured according to the intensity of God\u2019s love for them.\u00a0 As Christians, we are servants of this mystery, this grace and this dignity.\u00a0 We are sent out like missionaries in order to remind everyone of the grandeur of our dignity, as beloved children of God, and for whom the incarnation of his Son is the sign and guarantee.\u00a0 In the grey environment in which we live, where human dignity is not always respected, our mission is to testify to man\u2019s dignity, to the beauty and grandeur of couples and the family: man and woman truly are the masterpieces of creation.\u00a0 Elevated to the dignity of a sacrament, the Christian couple becomes an image, albeit imperfect, of Christ\u2019s relationship to the Church.<\/p>\n
Let us experience this Christmas in a different manner!<\/p>\n
I wish you a Holy Nativity of the Lord!<\/p>\n
Father Jos\u00e9 Jacinto Ferreira de Farias, scj<\/strong><\/em> This year, I wish for Christmas to take on a very particular savour and meaning for us, because it comes in the middle of the year of preparation for the great Gathering at Fatima 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.12.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fr","pt","es","it","en"],"languages":{"fr":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"pt":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"es":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"it":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/equipes-notre-dame.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/equipes-notre-dame.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/equipes-notre-dame.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equipes-notre-dame.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equipes-notre-dame.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/equipes-notre-dame.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equipes-notre-dame.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/equipes-notre-dame.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equipes-notre-dame.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equipes-notre-dame.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSpiritual Counsellor to the ERI<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"