PAROQUIA – Nssa. Sra. Do Rosário
Residência Nssa. Sra. de Fátima 16 November, 2011 XLI:3
Trav. Carlos Pontes, 171 http://www.egfbenya.com
62.900-000 Russas, Ceará e-mail: [email protected]
BRASIL
Dear Colleagues, Family, Friends and Benefactors:
The symbols are plethora. Many are ancient, dating from centuries, even millennia past. Specific signs mark a promise made not only to a people, but to a species that had been tricked, confused and confounded into following an aberrant promise;
Partake of the forbidden and you shall become like God, Almighty God.
Enticed as such, our progenitors (“First Parents”) fell into evil, the demonic grasp. Thus we became alienated from our Creator, from each other even from ourselves with divisions, perversions, proclivities and degenerations that social analyses have been mightily trying to explain for centuries.
Yet only one course presents the way, that of transcendental surrender, and only one Promise (The Redeemer) has the power for our recovery. That Promise was given by the Creator, Almighty God, for the One Savior who would redeem the world. He marked that Promise clear and solid with messengers throughout the centuries so that the arrival of that Savior could clearly be anticipated, perceived, recognized and known. However confusion by the tempter remained strong and the arrival of that Savior was a little-known truth recognized and received by a materially impoverished and socially despised but spiritually empowered group that can only be described as peripheral. He Himself Jesus Christ lived on the periphery of established society. Yet He manifest the Divine Presence among us and drew to Himself members of all classes of that species which had been degraded by evil those many centuries earlier.
He is one of us and lived as we do in all except sin. Rejected by the world, He found acceptance by those among us who, although degraded by sin, are not of the world and thus received the blessing to hear Him. His message was and remains short and clear;
“Follow Me!”
Nations, empires, powers and principalities have opposed Him. They still do because they fear Him, his Call, his Message. His signs and symbols are rejected even today as a degraded world (and many in this world) seek to hide Him and hide themselves from Him confirming one of the declarations in the Prayer of Glory:
“…as it was in the beginning, is now..”
Laws, edicts, declarations and threats are aimed at anyone who would receive Him, especially publically. Yet a distinct part of us remains faithful to Him as He never quits on us. He personally remains with us as I pray that you (we) be loyal to Him and in Him, in a communion that gathers us in spirit notwithstanding vast geographic separation as I wish you:
A HAPPY, BELOVED HANUKKA-ADVENT-CHRISTMAS SEASON and a BLESSED NEW YEAR OF 2012!
Sincerely in Jesus Christ
Pe. Ed Benya, S.J.