(Το παρακάτω κείμενο είναι γραμμένο από
την Ελληνική Ορθόδοξη Αρχιεπισκοπή Καναδά.!!!
Όσο κα να ψάξετε ΔΕΝ θα βρείτε ΟΥΤΕ ΜΙΑ
ελληνική λέξη.! Φανταστείτε τώρα να μην ήταν Ελληνική αυτή η Αρχιεπισκοπή…
Καθόλου ΝΤΡΟΠΗ ρε σεις …λεβέντες, εκεί πέρα;)
Christmas Spiritual Nourishment Part II: Gospel Readings for the
Nativity
In the Church, the Sunday before Christmas is
called the Sunday of the Holy Fathers. The Gospel passage, Matthew 1:1-25 (see
below), reveals the genealogy of Jesus Christ. The Evangelist categorizes the
ancestors of the Lord in three groups of fourteen generations.
Importantly, those identified by name include all
people, that is, men and women, righteous and sinful, kings and peasants, rich
and poor. It reinforces the point, central to His Incarnation, that the Son of
God identified with and became part of humanity to every person without
exception. It also prefigures what St. Paul would write to the Galatians:
For you are all sons of God through
faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put
on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free,
there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if
you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the
promise (Gal 3:26-29).
Part II of our Christmas Spiritual Nourishment series,
however, will draw attention to the last paragraph of the Gospel reading that
focuses on Joseph’s apprehension and uneasiness with the fact that the Ever-Virgin
Mary
