BETHLEHEM, December 25, 2008 (WAFA)- The Church of Nativity in Bethlehem, echoed with the Christmas midnight mass, and the Christmas Homily recited by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Fuad Twal.
“The people walking in darkness have seen a great light” (Is 9:2) Were the first words of Christmas Homily this year, in which Twal wished all a happy feast and a new year of peace, stability and security.
His Beatitude then narrated the story of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem, saying, 'It wants a peace that we have lost, a loss to which we have resigned ourselves; mutual love which no longer exists to the point that it has disappeared even from our vocabulary; respect and dignity, so often battered by maltreatment, by insults and the spilling of blood.'
Twal stated that, 'the silence of the grotto will be even louder than the voice of the canons and submachine guns. The silence of the grotto gives life to those whose voice has been suffocated by tears and who have sought refuge in silence and impotence.'
The Midnight Mass was attended by President Mahmoud Abbas, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, and a high ranking delegation from
