Udupi Bishop Gerald Lobo greets people on Christmas eve
Udupi: Bishop Dr Gerald Isaac Lobo on Saturday Christmas eve extended his warm greetings and best wishes for a blessed Christmas to all the people of Udupi, the country and the world.
In a press release issued by the Bishop’s house, the Bishop said that on the joyous occasion of Christmas, I extend my warm greetings and best wishes for a blessed Christmas to all the people of Udupi, the country and around the world.
Christmas heralds the birth of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. His magnetic personality was both human and divine. His life was an open book which revealed the infinite love and compassion of God towards man. Christmas cribs, Christmas cards, Christmas carols, Christmas stars, Christmas sweets along with the Santa Claus evoke in us feelings of Joy and Excitement on the birth of the Divine Babe in Bethlehem.
“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man,” said Rabindranath Tagore. Jesus, the divine child, who was born as the “Emmanuel” has truly become “God-with-us”. He is the visible face of the invisible God. He summarized all the laws and prophetic instructions into the love of God and love of the neighbour. He preached and practiced forgiveness. He presented LOVE as the panacea for all the ills of mankind. “Peace to men of good will,” sang the angels at his birth. Indeed, as Mahatma Gandhi felt, HE IS OUR PEACE.
Doubtless, he is “irresistibly the centre of the world” (H. G. Wells). Indeed, “all the armies that ever marched, all the navies that ever sailed, all the parliaments that ever sat, and all the kings that ever reigned” have not affected the life of human beings upon this earth as much as that one solitary life, that of Jesus of Nazareth. May he grant us His divine peace and unite all of us into one family.
May His Peace be with you at Christmas and throughout the New Year 2018, he said.
