At Christmas day Mass, there was a lot to beg about because the world was in danger of battle. The priest then made a note to us that the few remaining Catholics in Bethlehem are celebrating their next Christmas in a time of conflict and poverty.
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And 2024 has been a record month for Birmingham, Ala. This season, there have been more murders than there have been in the city’s long past. Think of how many houses are missing someone at the board this Christmas, in addition to the horrifying murder that spreads to the neighborhood.
In Rome, Pope Francis, who is now in a chair and plainly showing his years, has declared 2025 a Jubilee Month of Hope. Peace and war, hope and homicide, and the terrible reality of man killing people are all in comparison. Despite all the toys and glitter, the priest undoubtedly provided something to consider.
All kills, thinking some good will come of it. Good for whom? The dying? The victims? When did the world last have no war when? Maybe 2, 000 years before, when Christ was born? That was the short-lived time of the Pax Romana. Now, not so much peace.  ,
Death and destruction have created a subdued dish day in the Holy Land. Perhaps the priest in Jerusalem has pleaded for all to carry out a more solemn festival of the Prince of Peace’s arrival this year because of the gloomy days.
And in Eastern Europe, Ukraine and Russia, two world leaders in Christianity, engage in all the traditional racial civil war murder. As the wounded soldiers settle the variations that the social leaders didn’t have the brains or guts to live without violence, it may soon stop not with a bang but with a moan.
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And in Syria, the proponents of Greater Israel and Turkey’s Neo-Ottoman Empire are revoking the drawings created at the Versailles peace event after World War I. That, liberal intellectuals decided to cut up that region of the world into what they claimed were more “rational” restrictions. This is the natural outcome of the “war to close all war.”
How moral are boundaries created currently using a tank’s mouth and an F-16’s bomb rack, as can be seen from the cannon’s mouth and the barrel of a gun? As American citizens buy Christmas present weapons for our proxy soldiers all over the world, the wings manufacturers in America are actually celebrating a bumper Christmas singing” What a Friend We Have in Jesus.”
The culture of death is still present on your back door, whether it is listening to gunshots from cities that have passed from segregation to death or waiting for an F-16 drone to fall down from the sky and destroy every designated unwanted within a country km of you.
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And if every person is our nephew, as we hear on Christmas, aren’t we all security injury? The challenge for 2025 will be to get the morality of trust as the bell bell rings toward midnight. I have no reason for optimism but every reason for hope, as the saying goes.
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It is trust that leads us to expect, and hope that leads us to charity. The belief that motivates us to action is the righteousness of trust. Hope is a virtue that leads us to believe that everything done for God has immortal worth and is in his control. And the morality of generosity makes even the most commonplace job, done for the love of God and cousin, excellent. And when charity spreads privately and among adequate people, peace will rule on the outside of our nation and our world. If we are ready to grab the gift, the evidence is in the Christmas pudding.