IT’S CHRISTMAS AGAIN EVEN IN THE MODERN AGE

It is certainly not the “Silly Season”, unless you make it

“Our” time CHRISTMAS TIME Current time

Christmas in a Modern Age

All around the town and all around the parishes, for approximately 44% of us who are Christians in Australia (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2021) we are nearing the time when we put up decorations, primarily to praise  and cherish the Christ Child, his Mother and his Holy Birth.

We also put-up lights and tinsel to show the joy and pleasure with which we remember all that he represents.

We then go carolling however, many of these ladies and these gents, overlook other pilgrims in their presence.

Dealing with such immigrants in real time is not pleasant.

Some of us would slam the door and relegate them to their horrid fate, for generosity and charity to these people is not the mode of late.

Religion is much easier when practiced from afar, so those in need of shelter will not find our doors ajar. (Ref. - Blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown /Edited – Paolo Lostia)

Given the time of the year we present you the  “Beethoven's Ode to Joy” as you've never seen it before, all on the streets of a beautiful Catalan town - https://www.classicfm.com/composers/beethoven/news/beethoven-9-flashmob/

Finally let’s hope that the 2022 the Child Christ (including Father Christmas) brings us all Christians, non-Christians and non-believers, the gift of Peace, as humanity must realise that is the solution to the plight of the immigrants/pilgrims referred to above.

Happy Christmas and Happy New Year to you all – Committee of the SCA