Christmas is man\u2019s liberation day: the miracle of divine charity, from which human liberty springs. Where the master is Mammon (or a tyrant representing it), liberty is in danger and has to be condemned. Where God is the master, liberty is the prime value, for which man is a son of God \u00abSo you are no longer a slave, but a son\u00bb (Gal. 4, 72). The population does well to solemnize this feast which has always been and remains popular. In fact it celebrates the birth of He who came to liberate the masses and make them God\u2019s people.<\/p>\n
Igino Giordani, \u00abNew City\u00bb n. 23-24, December 1967, pp.12-13.<\/p>\n
Christmas is the sublime mystery of the love who loved mankind so much, that he made himself man. As was written, the mystery of the Incarnation is the document of God\u2019s excessive charity. To embrace all through it, upon being born in a grotto amid the animals, He put himself below all: the poorest among the poor contemplated him under the guise of their own misery. <\/p>\n
Igino Giordani, \u00abNew City\u00bb cit., pp.12-13.<\/p>\n
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To celebrate Christmas means to revive the conscience of the precept of love, brought down from heaven to earth by Jesus, and spread by him with his life and words. And today there is a special need for a revival \u2013 and cleansing \u2013 of the concept of love, not only because this word is abused in vile films and books, but also and above all because human coexistence risks to become increasingly sadder, and despite the neon lights, even gloomier, due to the lack of love.<\/p>\n
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Igino Giordani, \u00abNew City\u00bb cit., pp.12-13.<\/p>\n
Christmas stirs up the air of innocence and simplicity: rediscovering that source of joy, which is Christ in our midst, as in the cr\u00e8che amid Mary, Joseph and the shepherds. The Lord was born so that we could be born with him. He is Life and we were \u2013 and are in sin \u2013 in death. We pass from death to life if we love our brothers. The Gospel educates mankind to liberty: baptism embeds them in a free coexistence; the Church engages them in a militia of charity.<\/p>\n
Igino Giordani, \u00abNew City\u00bb cit., pp.12-13.<\/p>\n
Now, that the Word has become man, turning from All into Nothing would seem like a folly of divine love, almost like the emptying of divinity to become one with the misery of creatures. But in this way it destroys the evil of men, taking upon itself to make man die in its own death. This is why he bowed down to be born in a grotto \u2013 from the stars to a stable \u2013 and took on human struggles. And dying, above the shouting sea of the benefitted, affirms his solidarity up to the end: \u00abFather, forgive them since they know not what they are doing.\u00bb (Lk. 23,34).<\/p>\n
Igino Giordani, The Only Love<\/em>, New City 1974, p.141<\/p>\n The Church enjoys the melodies of violins and bagpipes amid tree branches, along the imaginary rivlets of Christmas. But it also remembers the salvation adopted from this child and the life he gave, which is not a sloshy effect but the fruit of opposition, detachment from the family, and even from the country. It is blood and thorns, and insults and death. And his followers are called to embrace a cross, because precisely out of this love which makes the immense God a babe in rags, the trials, work, and abandonment are accepted, in order to be co-redeemers with him through his priceless blood. Igino Giordani, the Two Cities<\/em> New City 1061, p.27<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Christmas is man\u2019s liberation day: the miracle of divine charity, from which human liberty springs. Where the master is Mammon (or a tyrant representing it), liberty is in danger and has to be condemned. Where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":4000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moving-on-with-foco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iginogiordani.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iginogiordani.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iginogiordani.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iginogiordani.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iginogiordani.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iginogiordani.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7560,"href":"https:\/\/iginogiordani.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions\/7560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iginogiordani.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iginogiordani.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iginogiordani.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iginogiordani.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
No wonder that the first witnesses of his faith are innocent children, who upon dying profess their faith.<\/p>\n