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How shall I reach Christmas?
2016-12-01
 This word "how shall reach Christmas?" is the word that one of a flock was said to be it towards me the other day. I was at a loss incidentally. This one will be said "what kind of preparations shall make at a church on a day on Christmas?"; or "what shall do in four weeks until Christmas?" I would be said or was going to be worried about being which. Therefore I want to talk about two.
 
  Many people feel that a fixed idea to be "a day that that a child gets a present and eats a cake, and Christmas displays a Christmas tree and is pleased" is built up all too soon at a home. The which has nothing to do with the oneself directly on Christmas, or seems thinks that I am a lot.
 
  When mass is over at night on Christmas, belonging people of the Kasaoka church eat hot udon and rice ball and prevent you from being hungry before paths of house are accompanied. I prepare various presents for children through bingo.
  There is the feeling to want a lot of children to come to the church, but after all the important thing wants to value a feeling to "celebrate birth of Christ with joy heartily together". Therefore, anyway, I value that I keep it in Christmas mass.
 
  A church values the Christmas mass very much. This is because Jesus Christ (meaning called Jesus that oil is a poured person) who told the problem of the human sense of values "how is way of life that it seems to be a human being most to live as a person?" exactly was born in the world practically.
 
  In addition, this birth was that God promised to Israeli people for 2,000 years, and people of the Judaism at the time looked forward to it heartily. However, the wish was the liberation from what was influenced by the Roman Empire and the help for Israeli races in those days (from about B.C. 60).
 
  However, it was "the help of the whole world" that God expected, and I was influenced by darkness (human egocentric sense of values, e.g., a heart to think about a heart, a person with a disability that nothing feels on seeing a poor person and the person who is in trouble like the person who must not live. I throw a poor person, people made small, children open from mental heart) sense of values of oneself various, and it is a big meaning of Christianity to have given new sense of values and thinks that it may be a meaning of the birth of Christ.
 
  It was a cross of yes that the Israeli people who looked forward to Christ Jesus greatly tripped. Many members of the Diet said, "the Messiah should be gone down by a cross", and the soldiers said, "go down from a cross if it was the Messiah", too. Furthermore, the liberation for the Jew was not possible because one of two people hung on the cross with yes showed that it was the Messiah by not going down from a cross for the Jew who thought that it was a mark of the Messiah to go down from a cross saying "save us if it was the Messiah".
 
  Jesus Christ told a true meaning to live for as the Messiah of all humankind from there. The meaning of pains by the world was shown through the pains of the cross and let you think about pains of life, old illness, the death and was not for happiness of the world, and, for happiness in heaven, it was told that pains of the world were necessary.
 
  What I spoke is way of Jesus Christ who showed it to many people in a visible form on this ground of life so far. Not the teaching that I heard from pupils, I exist historically and review way of Christ who leaves the name for the history of life, and begin to make an effort to repair way of life toward main God, untying it is only our "Advent".
 
  I do not let God accept way of oneself of life and am that we must do way of oneself of life filled with self-interest in the 4-week "Advent" during a period turning a heart toward abandoned God again. Besides a strong feeling turning a heart to deep hope and God as I let "baby yes" bear in our heart again is necessary for the Israeli people who it spends 2000, and looked forward to the Messiah heartily.
 
  The word "how shall reach Christmas?" is a very important word. It is certain only that it is not "Christmas" carried on a world-like commercialism-like base. In addition, it does not seem to be to be fuddled with that solemn atmosphere of the Christmas mass.
Important thing is that it was born on this ground with the look of the human baby in the form that "words are seen only to God" that I was able to hear only with an ear so far. And I can learn how you live as "a human being as a person" through the New Testament when we look back on the life of the born baby. I notice a more splendid way of life there not being it. It may be necessary to celebrate the birth than anyone else. It is the answer to word "how shall reach Christmas?".
 
Principal Michiharu Yamaguchi
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