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Christmas 2012: Time to Begin Again

Dec 22, 2012

Maria Voce’s best wishes for Christmas and the coming 2013, proposing a jubilee year with space for mutual forgiveness and a future of peace.

Christmas 2012

‘It seems to me that God is offering us this coming year as a jubilee year, which does not only mean joy but means a year where we start again, we forgive all that others owe us. We want to start from scratch, with a pact of mercy that is concrete, true, deep.

‘It is a year where we offer forgiveness and ask forgiveness. And we declare officially that we will do all we can to make our relationships better. We are sustained in this by the commitment to live love for our brothers and sisters with renewed intensity.

‘With a mercy that hopes all, covers all, gives trust, believes, we will experience a complete amnesty in our hearts, a universal mutual forgiveness.

‘Merry Christmas to everyone! Living as children of God (John 1:12), just as Jesus gives us the power to be.’

Maria Voce

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