{"id":510855,"date":"2024-12-24T16:29:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T14:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=510855"},"modified":"2024-12-24T16:30:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T14:30:28","slug":"children-of-light-or-darkness-a-bishops-call-for-discernment-in-front-of-modern-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/children-of-light-or-darkness-a-bishops-call-for-discernment-in-front-of-modern-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Children of light or darkness: A bishop&#8217;s call for discernment in front of modern challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EORMMSM\/posts\/pfbid0z3ynGfR4cy5ygZV3We8zTa3cuzJRA6augqPv59pWuBLGRLYyRNeKvVQVjDD7MEvl\">Christmas Pastoral Letter<\/a>, His Grace Bishop Iustin of Maramure\u0219 and S\u0103tmar underscores the importance of making a definitive decision between living in the light through faith and love and in the darkness through lawlessness and the rejection of Christ in the context of the modern world, which is characterised by conflicts, divisions, and moral challenges.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The joy, light, peace, and salvation brought to the world by Christ, the Son of God, have always been proclaimed by the Church, the Gospel being the best and most hopeful news for all of humanity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the prophetic words of the Savior, &#8220;And this is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light&#8221; (John 3:19-21), His Grace explained that people will be divided between &#8220;the children of light, the believers in God, and the children of darkness, who have rejected Christ, the Light of the World.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For two thousand years, the Church of Christ, &#8216;against which the gates of hell shall not prevail&#8217; (Matthew 16:18), has spread light, peace, joy, love, and forgiveness among the nations of the earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Agent of Evil<\/h2>\n<p>His Grace Bishop Iustin also pointed out that the devil is the agent of evil, bringing division, hatred, conflict, and death into the world, and those who do not believe in Christ and consider themselves masters of the world are involved in suppressing human freedom and dignity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, the evil one, the devil, the enemy of happiness and human salvation, sows division, hatred, conflict, war, and death. Those who do not believe in Christ and think themselves masters of the world continue to suppress freedom and human dignity, which are supreme and inalienable gifts, given by God to man since the creation of the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Believing themselves masters over people, they adopt laws of lawlessness, making lawlessness into law, against the fundamental truths of humanity, trying to change the normality created by God and to corrupt the natural life from its canon and norm, which are holy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Family is Holy and Indissoluble<\/h2>\n<p>In this year&#8217;s Christmas Pastoral Letter, His Grace also reminded us of the sanctity and indissolubility of the family, made up of a man and a woman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Each family \u2013 man and woman, according to the biblical model \u2013 is blessed and holy, having the purpose of procreation and continuing life on earth. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate (Mark 10:9), said the Saviour. 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