Words in the Feast

I read Elias Khoury’s article “the Sun of Righteousness” in which he called on us to read the Word made flesh “in the context of the time in which we live”. The article is a section of the hymns of the feast whose function is to extend the worship to our daily life, to our homes, our streets, and to the near and distant pain… I would like to take two points of the excellent article. Firstly, its writer depicted that Bethlehem went out to Gaza to celebrate the Nativity of the Word. Then, he called on the cities of the world to stand in solidarity with a city whose rubble and ruins had become the manger and the cave of the Word. He said that going to Gaza today is impossible. However, we can declare our solidarity with it in many ways, including “abstaining from this careless extravagance that we see here in the bereaved Beirut... whom they had impoverished”, and demonstrating in the cities around the world so that celebrating Christmas would be “a call to stop the massacre in the land of Christ”. These are the most sublime words in the feast, words that follow the Word Who had come down to us.