Christmas
There we find the Virgin Mother offering the baby Jesus - the One who stripped himself of divine glory in order to become poor, driven by love for mankind.
The beautiful initiative of the nativity is meant to reawaken in all Christians the desires to witness to the values of life, love and peace of which the solemnity of Christ's birth reminds us. The tree is also a meaningful symbol of Christ's birth because, with its evergreen leaves, it recalls a life that never dies.
Commemorating the tree and the crib means passing on the history of popular piety and religiosity. It means rediscovering joy and the solidarity of friendship which we must preserve in contemporary society, where the consumerist rush and the search for material goods alone sometimes seem to prevail.
Christmas is a Christian feast and its symbols, the crib and the tree, hand down in time the true meaning of Christmas!
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