Merry Christmas 25/12/2010

_Christmas is the time of the year when we wait for jingle bells

and wishing our near and dear ones the best of everything we ask
from life. No celebration is complete until we pray to god and wish
our loved ones. So, what can be better than sending Christmas wishes
to all of your relatives and friends who are near or far from you.

_Let me tell u a Christmas Story

One beautiful Christmas story
There are wonderful and unusual events related to the birth of Jesus Christ.

About them we are told by Evangelists Matthew and Luke. There were a lot

of people in Bethlehem when Joseph and Mary arrived and they could not

find a place to stay. So, they had to spend the night outside the city, in a cave

where shepherds sheltered their livestock from the storm. Here, in the stable,

was born Baby Jesus and here the Mother of God swaddled him and put him in

a manger.

At the same time on a field near Bethlehem, angels appeared to some shepherds

and revealed them that the Savior came into the world. And the shepherds came

to the cave to worship Jesus. The Gospel of Matthew tells about three wise men

from the East – the three Magi, three kings, who saw in the sky the shine of a new,

extremely bright star. According to the prophecies of the East, the appearance of

this star signified the coming into the world of the Son of God, the Messiah, who

was expected by the Jewish people.
The names of the wise men were Gaspar, Melchior and Balthazar. They followed

the guiding star and reached Bethlehem where they worshipped the newborn Savior

bringing him gifts from the treasures of the East: gold, frankincense and myrrh.

That’s how the tradition was born.