You're so right, so often "we" merge the Gospels. This is one of the most interesting places where we do that because it wouldn't make for a great children's nativity play if all we had was Matthew and the slaughter of the Innocents. I don't think families visiting my parish on Christmas Eve would come back if Matthew was all we did. 🤣 Yet we sanitise the reality of the 21st Century and suffering children. 😥
Do you think there's a place for both? That maybe it's good to have a day focused on unalloyed joy - but not to settle in there and block out reality? Even Mary and Joseph had their night of joy and wonder - maybe even days or weeks of it - before they had to flee. Just a thought!
@@annevangend742 Oh absolutely. I think we need to celebrate the wonder. And thank goodness for Luke, who allows us to enter that joy so fully. It was just something that Gillian said that really challenged me, in the current day of war in the Middle East.
Thankyou so much...and may the blessing of God be with you all also.
Thank you all for still doing Conversation Minis.
You're so right, so often "we" merge the Gospels. This is one of the most interesting places where we do that because it wouldn't make for a great children's nativity play if all we had was Matthew and the slaughter of the Innocents. I don't think families visiting my parish on Christmas Eve would come back if Matthew was all we did. 🤣 Yet we sanitise the reality of the 21st Century and suffering children. 😥
Do you think there's a place for both? That maybe it's good to have a day focused on unalloyed joy - but not to settle in there and block out reality? Even Mary and Joseph had their night of joy and wonder - maybe even days or weeks of it - before they had to flee. Just a thought!
@@annevangend742 Oh absolutely. I think we need to celebrate the wonder. And thank goodness for Luke, who allows us to enter that joy so fully. It was just something that Gillian said that really challenged me, in the current day of war in the Middle East.