Peace and Justice at Christmas
by Fr Shay Cullen
The Flight into Egypt, Melchior Broederlam, 1393-99
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, France [Web Gallery of Art]
WITH Christmas coming, we see the shining stars and message of peace. So many need peace: peace of heart and mind, soul and spirit, in the family and in friendships, in community, and above all peace to end the violence in the land of Palestine, Iraq, Syria and Ukraine.
Over a million refugees are perishing in Jordan and Turkey huddled in the cold winter tents of the refugee camps. Their Christmas will be just a little better than that endured by the parents of Jesus of Nazareth on the night of his birth and days after.
They too were refugees and asylum seekers and fled to Egypt to escape the tyrant Herod.
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