The head of the Catholic See in Moscow Archbishop Paolo Pezzi addressed his flock with his Christmas greetings and reminded of the significance of this great feast.‘The new liturgical year is a gift of God, Who wants to reveal Himself in the mystery of Christ through the word and sacraments. He wants to talk to humanity and to save modern people by means of the Church’, Mgr. Pezzi stated in his address conveyed to Interfax-Religion on Monday.
Archbishop Pezzi reminds the Christians that ‘God loves us and this is precisely why He waits for us to come back to Him and open up our hearts to meet His love, to put our hands to the palm of His hand, and to remember that we are His children’.
It is only when a person meets Christ, he realizes himself most fully and finds absolute happiness, head of the Catholic See notes. He urges Christians to ‘bring positive experience to the world and share the impulse of hope necessary to all the people’.
The Nativity of Christ has become a gift of hope to people, the archbishop writes, hoping that the encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI of Rome on Christian hope will be soon published in Russian.
Archbishop Pezzi is to celebrate Christmas mess in the Moscow Catholic Cathedral of Immaculate Conception tonight. Apostolic Nuncio to Russia Antonio Mennini is expected to attend the service.
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