January 6th 2005 - CHRISTMAS MESSAGE 2004 / 2005

CHRISTMAS MESSAGE 2004 / 2005

Metropolitan of Montenegro & Littoral , Zeta & Mountains and Excarh of Holy See of Pec

AMFILOHIJE

CHRISTMAS MESSAGE 2004/2005

PEACE OF GOD - CHRIST IS BORN!

Celebrating Christmas brothers we are celebrating God who become man; we celebrate also man who received Divine gift who God become man , the gift of eternal life and imperishable dignity . Upraised by that magnificent Event angels and people as they did than they also today and in all past and time to came are singing and will sing rejoicing song " Glory to God in a Highest and on earth peace to men of good will. " From that Heaven - Earthly Event according to prophet, " The mercy and truth did meet , justice and peace are embraced. From that Event for us people and for all creation God in Christ become " Christmas Brother " , our brother and eternal cobrother. Because of that the prophets named Him : Emanuel, what means " God is with us ". And when God is with us and in us - who can be against Us! ?

When He who is Giver of life and victor of death with us, in us is victory who "wins the world " by meaning sin , evil, temporality and nonsense. In our time people prefer darkness and nonsense, exchanging Christmas Brother with Grandpa Frost ( Djed Mraz ) . True the myth of Coca-Cola probably wants to with conscience or conscienceless to hide from us people, children small and big this Event , this reality that Eternal God became Eternal Young Child . Looks like that people to who all things and commercialized , wont to steal , kill God in people and by that finally take away the meaning of man's life , man's birth , living and dying . It isn't, and it must not be , for man's sake and His Eternal dignity , that "Granpa Frost" ( Djed Mraz ) , who is melting and completely disappearing by first sunshine , can replace Christmas Brother truthful Giver of joy , peace and life. " Christmas , Christmas Brother , who make doors golden from floor to sealing and whole house to roof " according to ethnic song is the one brings the gifts for Christmas and New Year. He truly is the New Year of God's goodness , " only thing new under sun " - according to Godly wisdom word of inspired by God poet Saint John Damaskus. Therefore is no wonder that Church of God on just before Christmas celebrates Mothers day ( Materice ) and Fathers day ( Ocevi ) , who offer in those days gifts to their children and by the gifts they " free their hands " : mothers are the symbol of God's Mother ; the fathers e symbol of heavenly fatherhood God father who is sending us His Only Begotten Son as gift to us. Both things make our human birth , by meaning motherhood of our mothers and fatherhood of our fathers - the highest holiness of life. Is it than good to exchange those the highest holiness of life with childish stories and Grandpa Frost myths , by whom is when we look deeper covers glory of death and nonsense?! Desecration of motherhood and fatherhood is actually desecration of children. That's why is needed to deeply think over point made brought on December's professional's meeting of CANU ( Montenegrin Academy of Science and Art ) who underlined that in that meeting calling it Demographic movements and population problems in Montenegro ", that in Montenegro our day more people die then are being born and that is happening for the first time in its history ! And not only in Montenegro but in wider world territories especially in European and American countries where in our days dominate commercial - hedonistic ideology of Grandpa Frost and Coca-Cola . Is proven that " sexual revolution " in America of sixties of the last century as the new worship " lust of Body, lust of eyes and superiority of life ( 1. John's 2, 16 ) in our times brings a lot of death fruits in the whole world. Male and female who are created by God to give birth and multiply and fill the earth ( Gen. 1, 28 ) sexuality as the purpose of giving birth they made to that new ( better to say ancient pagan ) hedonistic philosophy of life who is satisfaction of sexual instinct as fruitless enjoyment. Making sexuality to self-satisfaction of two or in fruitless self-satisfaction means making the mystery of love and it fullness without meaning. When that fullness is sex only, than mans life looks like fruitless tree. Fruitless plant , fruitless cow or any other living kind or plant who is not bearing the fruit - is being cut and put on fire " . If that is works for every living kind and plant , why it couldn't work for man? Indeed , sexuality become satisfaction of instinct, become hedonism, in marriage or out of marriage converts man life to fruitlessness. Eros is manufactory of death as the some contemporary philosophers notice. Our celebration of Christmas as celebration of Holiness of Birth is happening in time of man using and misusing God's giving and gifts , even and gift of sexuality as a gift of life and love. That misusing takes actually to destruction of elementary roles and lows of life, and is cause of evil, sickness which endangers health as a nature of human. The subject of our days in the world is the fact which worries us all the there are about 40 million people today infected from evil deadly illness, which is caused by sexual intercourse , homosexual sodomy , drugs.

There is something absurd, almost unreasonable and an understandable in behaving of contemporary man. On the other side he more than ever fights for accomplishing freedom, human rights , and human dignity . On the other side same contemporary man is keeping on his bosom serpents which permanently poison and cut very same freedom , rights and human dignity. In that very case contemporary humanity is fighting against AIDS and other illnesses , against people trafficking and other kinds of violence, against drugs and other misusing nature and man. Supposing that eternal truth that " everything is free to us but is not for our benefice" ( Apostle Paul ) contemporary lawmakers " sexual needs " legalize aborts - killing the unborn, forgetting that killing and desecration of life of embryo means desecration of human life in general . Fighting the AIDS and the other similar evils of out times, so - called contemporary man is uplifting the hedonism in level of only divinity , is evening the moral and amorality, instigates by contemporary ways main cause of those evil ( prostitution , immorality promiscuity, amorality , sodomy ) . New short run educators are teaching the youngsters that they by distribution of condoms will win the battle over AIDS and other evils which are threatening them!

Christmas is witnessing to us the truth brighter then son for all those whose who have eyes to see and ears to hear : AIDS , drug using , loosing of meaning of life and other illness of our time are the consequences of moral destruction in conscience of contemporary man. Rejecting and abusing of ancient Christian and all - human moral foundations and principles of life and bulleted on them life still and human existence - take to detraction, falling a part and rottenness very nature and life. The sun which is worming us is old and very old , the air which we breath , the water which we drink is very old - but without sun, without air , without water there is no life . The church's truth is old and anciently old about holiness of life, holiness of marriage and sexuality and their eternal meaning - but without it there is no and could not be healthy and truthful life , as God - man measure human existence . Christ Nativity is revealing to us giving and proving . The life has eternal meaning : he is beginning and his fullness is in eternity. That's way everything human and cosmic has eternal meaning. Also the man behaving , the way of human leaving the using of mans gifts and using of creation has eternal meaning , is not limited on temporality. Therefore is a love and sexual one, the marriage one is not the goal to itself .It is only the shadow the Divine love in man and creation; yeast for man's general growth, accomplishments; fulfillment in time and place first taste of eternal " God - man stage of the Son of God " ( St. Gregory of Mt. Sinai ) , born from the Virgin and Holy Spirit .

Because of that the people of short intellect morally darkened conscience may think and prevention of AIDS " that treat of world's future ( Kofi Anan ) ; and other evils of our time can be achieved by using of condoms. Christ Nativity is calling us on returning on ancient truthful moral bases and values as the foundation of human prosperity, progress and health. That's mean : that the problem of AIDS and the other similar illnesses is being healed primary by education of sexuality in spirit of human experience true the centuries , which Church preserves and keeps in the most perfect way . Than in Divinity of Christ Birth , sexual absence , vise providing of pre - marriage life by youngsters , vise using of Divinity of marriage, present the only source of new life , health and truth joy. Church understands and keeps the marriage and sexuality as a Holiness. For her is every human being unrepeatable, man and woman are mop , which is put away and change on daily bases. Promiscuity, immorality, amorality, and before that anti - natural sodomy - mean the sin , misusing of God gifted gifts , and the gift of sexuality, misusing which is in our times being bloodily paid by illnesses and poisons, falling a part of families , poisoning of young generations and fruitlessness of intellect and life, treat of spiritual, moral and also biological disagreement humanity. In the time where everything is for sale : Holiness of love - human body and soul ; in whom everything is use for gambling and commercial; and even with truthful liberty and human dignity, God - child, being born by Divine wisdom from the Father before the all ages in the time born by Divine wisdom from the Virgin and holy Spirit, is calling us by his birth on gaining Divine eternal Love, health and fullness of life or by abstaining before marriage , or by Holiness of marriage and from it giving a birth to descendants , or by Divine wisdom of the Birth - Giver - of - God angelic monastic shape. Being truthful to that truth and measure which not be counted of human life, meaning and dignity , let us bow , brothers , to God and Christmas , embracing by embrace , of eternal love and greeting by all joyful greeting :

CHRIST IS BORN ! INDEED IS BORN !

Your in Christ the Lord brother and eternal cobrother

+ AMFILOHIJE

ORTHODOX METROPOLITANE OF MONTENEGRO

& LITTORAL AND EXARCH HOLY SEE OF PEC