Ironically like the story of St. Stephen below, here we have on the day of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, another jarring reminder of evil walking the earth as we stop to worship and sit quietly at the birth of Christ.
This is a difficult thing for Christians. To face Christ and seek to live in love and peace as He told us ("my peace I leave with you"), but at the same time to realize the peace of Christ is not either understood or practiced by so many in the world. The peace of Christ comes by living in full faith. Part of spreading the Gospel means that we have to walk boldly in a world that seeks to reject the Gospel and us....and at times will go to any length to extinguish the flame of hope which the Gospel represents for all who have ears to hear and eyes to see.
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