Merry Merciful Christmas
Photo by Sister A. Maria Gervasoni - Solomon Islands (Oceania)
Wishes for a merciful Christmas (even towards ourselves) from spazio + spadoni
Another Christmas…
Another race to where?
We look around and notice that Most people don't meet, they don't have time to exchange glances, to stop and talk, to stand in amazement before the mystery of the Nativity.
For example, before midnight mass (for those who go), it's an obstacle course for yet another gift and to finish the preparations for a big dinner where you already know there will be a lot of stuff left over...
For this reason, spazio + spadoni, in addition to making and receiving greetings (WATCH THE VIDEOS), asks its inhabitants and readers of this magazine a little gift:
the gift of a few minutes on Christmas day
Not tomorrow, which is Boxing Day.
Not on Monday, when the diet starts.
Not after the holidays, when we go back to work and/or school.
Today, at Christmas, today of all days!
Jesus which was born to bring love to a humanity extremely in need of mercy, He asks for a bit of our time. From that manger he asks us to stop, to feed ourselves with hope.
How could we otherwise?
How would the shepherds or the Magi have visited him if they had been running for something else, busy only with their lives and their occupations? If they had not chosen to dedicate time to that event? If they had not deviated from their trajectories?
Come to think of it, every work of mercy (consoling the afflicted, feeding the hungry, caring for the sick, counseling the doubtful, hosting pilgrims, etc.), even before a fraternal attitude and approach, It requires time first and foremost!
No work can ever be accomplished if one does not give oneself in person.
If you don't approach people or don't let them approach you, there can be no proximity.
Jesus who comes into the world in simplicity and poverty not only pushes us to be merciful with others, but has mercy for each of us: for all the times we let “another Christmas” pass by with those frenetic rhythms that do not give rise to relationships and works.
Have mercy on our lukewarm wishes, our hasty greetings, our missed opportunities for exchange.
And bring us as a gift that new measure of time
– to love without measure and with joy –
and spazio + spadoni he is learning day by day
from the poor and the peripheries of the world.
A peaceful, slow and merciful Christmas to all!
Pig iron
Image
- Sister A. Maria Gervasoni (Oceania)
Wishes for a merciful Christmas (even towards ourselves) from spazio + spadoni
Another Christmas…
Another race to where?
We look around and notice that Most people don't meet, they don't have time to exchange glances, to stop and talk, to stand in amazement before the mystery of the Nativity.
For example, before midnight mass (for those who go), it's an obstacle course for yet another gift and to finish the preparations for a big dinner where you already know there will be a lot of stuff left over...
For this reason, spazio + spadoni, in addition to making and receiving greetings (WATCH THE VIDEOS), asks its inhabitants and readers of this magazine a little gift:
the gift of a few minutes on Christmas day
Not tomorrow, which is Boxing Day.
Not on Monday, when the diet starts.
Not after the holidays, when we go back to work and/or school.
Today, at Christmas, today of all days!
Jesus which was born to bring love to a humanity extremely in need of mercy, He asks for a bit of our time. From that manger he asks us to stop, to feed ourselves with hope.
How could we otherwise?
How would the shepherds or the Magi have visited him if they had been running for something else, busy only with their lives and their occupations? If they had not chosen to dedicate time to that event? If they had not deviated from their trajectories?
If we think about it carefully, every work of mercy (consoling the afflicted, feeding the hungry, caring for the sick, counseling the doubtful, hosting pilgrims, etc.), even before a fraternal attitude and approach, It requires time first and foremost!
No work can ever be accomplished if one does not give oneself in person.
If you don't approach people or don't let them approach you, there can be no proximity.
Jesus who comes into the world in simplicity and poverty not only pushes us to be merciful with others, but has mercy for each of us: for all the times we let “another Christmas” pass by with those frenetic rhythms that do not give rise to relationships and works.
Have mercy on our lukewarm wishes, our hasty greetings, our missed opportunities for exchange.
And bring us as a gift that new measure of time
– to love without measure and with joy –
and spazio + spadoni he is learning day by day
from the poor and the peripheries of the world.
A peaceful, slow and merciful Christmas to all!
Pig iron
Image
- Sister A. Maria Gervasoni (Oceania)
Photo by Sister A. Maria Gervasoni - Solomon Islands (Oceania)
