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　It was another December with an early thing. It was the New Year of the Catholic Church with "a Sunday of this Sunday first in the Advent". In Christianity, one year begins from the Advent and is over having the week of the Sunday of "Christ who is King". It is the end of the year that is early for one month. After Sunday of four times of Advent, I will reach Christmas on 24th.

 

  Christmas is said to be a wonder to warm the heart of people from old days. Christmas was celebrated in Christianity since before Christmas was carried on a commercial base. I spoke it before, but it is said to be December 25 for wind to say that it was influence of the Mithraism in the Roman Empire on a day to say and is celebrated every year for nearly 2,000 years on Christmas.

 

  It was a long time ago already, but there was a movie on Christmas recommended by him when I was on familiar terms with Nagaharu Yodogawa by the famous film critic who said and the chief editor connection of the magazine in Tokyo. "The Poseidon Adventure" and the title at the other that time left for the history of the movie which the United States made were the after all same American films called "a Christmas gift".

 

  "The Poseidon Adventure" was a popular movie for a person at the time, but thinks that it was a very minor movie one more now when I think. But I think that I guess a heart on Christmas right with two movies wonderfully. Yodogawa about "the Poseidon Adventure" "Poseidon runs aground, and a Christmas tree put up in the center in the ship is saved by many people climbing up the Christmas tree in the scene overturned with the overturn of the ship. It was said, I remember a scene called this.

 

  The people surely saw the help by Jesus Christ. In other words, the scene which climbs up the tree in a movie called Titanic, and is saved may suggest such a thing figuratively.

 

"The Christmas gift" was the movie which said that a scientist fascinated by sense of values of the world noticed that reality called "death" was thrust and really said what the important thing was for a human being.

 

  When, on Christmas, world-like sense of values praying only for own happiness and the happiness of the family does not play a key role. When I notice the thing which yes brought for us. When you think about the sense of values that we have and a meaning to live for if you say frankly more and must notice it.

 

  In other words, Christ suffered in a public place and was troubled and was the person whom I gave oneself for the people for an ill person and the people whom a heart suffered from disease of and survived.

 

  Therefore I have had I endured the things to want to eat such as the contributions for people who were in trouble to children only slightly, and various things save money to a moneybox of the love Japan for underprivileged children when I did the director of kindergarten. Christ gives a life to us, and it is greatly related to serving Christmas of junior and senior high school students with the life of Christ who revived across death to contribute to Christmas.

 

  They talked before, but, as for neither the Christmas cake nor the Christmas tree, all the Christmas presents are because oneself find happiness either. It is a tool to make a person happy.

 

  I led birth of Jesus Christ and people who were given by giving a person own body like Christmas cake throughout the life to the saving grace. Originally when a poor person was in trouble for food, it was a mark that please come anytime, and, as for the Christmas tree, the tree said to that it began in Germany was light of the candle which was turned on because a traveler did not lose the way first. The Christmas present was the present which three doctors gave that the help was brought on this ground by baby yes to with a feeling of thankfulness not the exchange of the present between human beings.

 

  What will we do on Christmas of this year? Must I pay more attention what the important part which the Christ birth that it is hard to be able to see in the present times in the commercial base shows is? Notice the life that we walk going to the help of Christ, and pay more attention to living in sense of values of not only the sense of values of the world but also God; when want it to be when is important, pray.

 

Principal Michiharu Yamaguchi