CAM DOWN AT CHRISTMAS'' Two and a half thousand years have passed since Isaiah uttered the prophetic words: "The people that walked in darkness has seen a great light; on those who live in a land of deep shadows a light has shone .. . For there is a child born to us, a son given to us and dominion is laid on his shoulders; and this is the name they give him: Wonder Counsellor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace" Once more we celebrate with joy and thanksgiving the birthday of our Saviour; that awesome day when human eyes first beheld the Word made flesh and saw His glory, the glory, as it were, of the only Begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
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Archbishop's message for the suffering in Poland The following statement by Archbishop Goody was read at at special Mass for Poland on December 20.
and endurance: Surrounded by powerful neighbours over which she was sometimes dominant and by which often dominated.
The Poland of St Casimir over which still reigns Mary, Queen of Heaven and Queen of Poland, is at Poland, a country on the. the present time being racked by frontier between East and political tensions between a univerWest has had a long and glor- sal desire for freedom and the dicious history of fidelity, valour tatorial demands of communist
While the world which Jesus Christ had come to save was ignorant of His birth, Christians will p~nder f?r all time the sublimity of the mystery of His commg. Christ the Incarnate expression of God's great love for us, demands our unswerving allegiance. Our only hope of salvation is in our belief in the Gospel and the implementation of its message in our daily lives. In a world of transitory values and in a society which barely clings to a moral order, fidelity to Christ is not easy. May each one of us find renewed strength in the grace that flows from the Christmas observance. The Kingdom of Heaven transcends the anxieties and miseries of a weary man-centred world and raises human hearts to the love of God who has pitched His tent among men.
materialism. Never has there been a greater need for the endurance, valour and fidelity of which Poland has given such evidence in the past. Her friends all will seek to help her and we pray Almighty God that by the intercession of Mary of Czestochowa that the powers of oppression may not prevail over them and that the Gospel of Christ may inspire the dawn and full light of freedom.
I pray for all of you, my people "Love came down at Christmas." May the love of the Lord Jesus Christ be a great light for those who walk in darkness and may it bind each one of us more closely to the Eternal Father and the Prince of Peace.
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As Poland entered its second week of martial law with most of the leadership of the independent Solidarity Labour Union under arrest, the Catholic Church emerged as the major counterforce against the military crackdown.
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