Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
Dear brothers and sisters in faith,
Dear fellow citizens ,
Men and women of goodwill
I stand before you on this blessed day, when Christians celebrate the enthusiasm, the joy of the birth of Jesus Christ. I come, first share with you the spiritual wealth and human gathering of such party, and secondly to sacrifice the traditional presentation of the vows.
"I am here to announce a great news. In the city of David a Saviour is born to you. " is how the angels of Bethlehem announced the birth of the Son of God made man to save mankind. Their message invites men of all times and all countries, Hope of the Hi, and the joy it creates from the depths of human hearts. This message also urged to accommodate the many invaluable lessons from the event.
How not to give way to many rich questions before the divine Child of Bethlehem: He, the Son of God, Master of all, comes to earth, in utter destitution! He, the Son of God Almighty is born, in the guise of a little fragile child!
this Christmas, coinciding with the Third World Festival of Negro Arts, Humble Child of Bethlehem teaches us not there, that the most important in a man is not so much what he has but he is not her or his having published that are important but the quality of his being. God, who agrees to be born among us, do we teach does not the African Renaissance through the Renaissance to the Black Man, the African Renaissance through the emergence, within the African Societies , men and women with new attitudes and behavior. So we enter this Qu'Appelle all their wishes Participants at the Second Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops: "Africa Arise, take your destiny in hand and walk ... "
Glory to God in the highest heaven and on earth peace to men of goodwill! " This beautiful hymn sung from the sky by an entire host of angels was heard throughout the land, time seems to the infant Jesus. It is both a praise to the Glory of God and a joyful proclamation of the benefits that the birth of his son brings to the whole earth.
With these words, following the Angels, Christians, in turn, say their gratitude to Him from whom we the "live and move and have our being" while asking peace for all its children of the earth.
- At Christmas, the God above the sky is the land of men to save her And that's when heaven and earth is closer to sing together restore harmony once lost due to sin.
- At Christmas God is always faithful in His Son Jesus fulfills his promise of salvation and peace proclaimed, from the beginning, for all humanity.
- At Christmas, the Son of God, as the rising sun, comes to visit us and get us out of our sleep and our darkness to open our life here below the horizon of God and restore our dignity as citizens of heaven.
- At Christmas, God joined man in all its dimensions and concerns, and makes every man a way to go to him.
- At Christmas, God shows us that all his effort, as it is oriented towards the development of man. Is not it also to do so he gave his Son, "our peace"!
Yes, as we like to sing it so well: "Yes is God so great and so vulnerable? Yes is God who cries our evil as a mother? Yes is God that can hurt so much wounding man? Son of the soil, which is God to love us so? "
Because he wants the happiness of man, every man and every man and that He alone is capable of filling God sends the world a Saviour, which is proclaimed the name: "Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Prince of Peace", (cf. Is 9:5)
We see so much The Creator is not only a donor of peace to man, but he himself is peace so that none exist outside of Him.
In fact, he is the bearer of this peace, since it was created in the image and likeness of God. But wounded by sin alas it is often responsible for conflict situations can be difficult to qualify. Indeed, as recalled so Pope John Pau lI, of blessed memory: "Peace is in danger, when man is denied what is due him as a man, when his dignity is not respected, and when coexistence is not oriented towards the common good, because for building a peaceful society and for the integral development of individuals, peoples and nations, the defense and promotion of human rights, rights are essenfielles "(Message for World Day of Peace 1999).
Let it take to say: if peace is a gift from God, it does not negate the responsibility or the role of the man who has the duty to work towards his recovery and his consolidation.
In saying all this, how not to think about the many parts of Africa and the world, still bruised and bloodied by conflicts of all sorts, often under the guise of race, ethnicity, religion ...
How can we forget our dear Casamance, where blood has flowed too! Today, girls and son of Casamance are tired and do not want that peace.
Today the Senegalese nation wants peace in this region and in all other regions.
On Christmas Day, I appeal to respect for life, calling on all combatants Maquis to please hear the cry of distress and fear of people. Not attacking the peace!
On Christmas Day, I solemnly appeal to the Head of State, and all members of the Government asking them to create the conditions for peace in Casamance. Because the chances of peace are real, and bigger than ever. Not attacking the peace!
I invite all stakeholders and the Casamance crisis to win the dialogue as an ideal way to forgiveness and reconciliation, irreplaceable conditions of real peace and lasting. Not attacking the more peace!
But let us also that peace-as we are reminded by the Second Vatican Council it is not merely the absence of war, nor even a stable balance between opposing forces, but it is based on a design correct the human person, and requires the building of an order based on justice and charity (cf.GS 78).
On this feast of Christmas, all pray for peace in our country, for peace in Cote d'Ivoire, peace in Africa and around the world.
Yes, pray without ceasing, because true peace is a gift from God, but also because prayer opens our hearts to a deep relationship with our Lord, and has to meet with the next under the sign respect, trust, understanding, esteem and love. In addition, it inspires courage and provides support to all true friends of peace who seek to promote in the various circumstances in which they live.
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ
Dear brothers and sisters in faith
Dear fellow citizens
On this blessed day of Christmas, I would like you to raise their voices in thanksgiving to the God of Love and Peace "Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us and met all kinds Blessings in Christ in heaven " (Ep 1.3)
In Bethlehem, God deposited into the arms of men a little child, the fruit of his love and best invention of his mercy. Let us therefore, in turn, put his hands the joys and hopes, but also the grief and anguish of our world and the poor in particular (cf.GS 1). Entrust him all those who suffer from disease, of war, violence, natural disasters, injustice, division, loneliness, misunderstanding, unemployment ...
God gives freely. For us to welcome, not only for Christmas time, but our whole life, He who dwelt among us, in the name of the Lord. Let us not be afraid of Him open the doors of our hearts, our homes, our country ...
In giving thanks to God for the many blessings we have received from him during the year 2010 that ends, I pray to the Prince of Peace-Ia to bless the year 2011 that is already visible.
May it be our beloved country a haven of peace, helping us to always cultivate dialogue, protect and promote together social justice, moral values, and freedom for a prosperous Senegal more fraternal and united.
May this year be for your families and each of you a year of peace, health, success and happiness.
the Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Poponguine, continues to keep us all under her maternal protection!
- Peace in Casamance and Senegal all!
- Peace in Côte d'Ivoire this sister country to which we pray!
- Peace in Africa!
- Peace in the world!
Merry Christmas and Sanctifying!
Happy New Year 2010
Déwénatil!
Cardinal Theodore Adrien SARR
Archbishop of Dakar
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