Editorial
Merry Christmas!
It is time to reaffirm God's message to mankind
The coming of Christmas signifies for the followers of Jesus Christ not only a celebration of life but also a remembrance of the need to conduct their lives on the principles of belief. The fundamental basis on which Jesus lived and for which he died was that people must love one another and share the joys and sorrows of this world because they all spring from the same Creation. The birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem was a sign that a bright new dawn had arrived for those who had long waited for a sign from the Almighty of oncoming change. For Joseph and Mary, the birth of the child Jesus was a miracle. For suffering souls in that long-ago era, it was a broad hint that fate was about to change for them. Wise men followed a star and made their way to the spot where a fresh symbol of faith awaited them.
On Christmas Day, therefore, it is an occasion of good cheer that the Christians observe and the rest of the world partakes of. The happiness is in knowing that Jesus' advent was a reaffirmation of God's message, constantly transmitted through His prophets, that all life is transitory and because it is, it must be lived in an ambience of sacrifice and in the belief that we cannot but care for one another, that we care about those less fortunate than we, that in the end we are all equal before the Lord of the Universe. The suffering Jesus went through on the Cross is for Christians all over the world the extremity that men of God can reach in their striving to create a purer soul and a better world for all people irrespective of colour, caste or any other consideration. On the Cross, it was something more than Jesus dying in the agony of pain. It was, more than anything else, a revival of the human spirit, a resurrection as it were of the soul, a manifest unwillingness to give in to injustice.
The world today celebrates the glory of Creation that Jesus Christ symbolised through the difficult paths he traversed in life and the beautiful pain he went through in death. We wish everyone and especially the Christian community in Bangladesh Merry Christmas!
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