Panjim: Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic Archbishop of Goa and Daman Filipe Neri Ferrão has said that the Christmas has power to overcome all shades of darkness.
“Christmas this year comes under the most unprecedented circumstances: the COVID-19 pandemic is holding sway over our lives, almost like a cloud of darkness that threatens to overcome the light. Christmas, however, has the power to overcome all shades of darkness. It will always remain a joyful event, bringing, as a famous carol says, “Joy to the world!” he said in his Christmas message this year.
He further said, “It is in this joy that I send Christmas greetings to our faithful and to the people of Goa in general, invoking on them blessings of the peace, the joy and the love that Jesus Christ brought to this world two thousand years ago.”
While commemorating His birth once again, the Archbishop said, “I pray that He, the Babe of Bethlehem and the Prince of Peace, may help us all to promote understanding and to sustain our efforts to build peace, trust and reconciliation: values for which Christ was born, lived and died.”
