This Sunday I went to the cathedral in Mexico. In the procession, I saw something that is unusual in the cathedral, people with candles (well that would be normal in a church), people with images of Baby Jesus, (I got it right away, we're on the eve of the Candelaria, fiesta in Mexico binds to worship the baby Jesus) and people with children, more than the usual. These children went to the Cathedral to be blessed. And I said that these children were the synthesis of the whole party consisting of candles, tamales and images of the Christ Child.
Candlemas candles have their origin in a phrase reminiscent San Lucas, when he says that Jesus is the light to enlighten the nations. That light, we always need tangible signs, we have concentrated on the sail. The candle symbolizes the human being needs the light of God. In Jesus' humanity is concentrated (the wax and wick) and divinity (the flame). The figures represent Originally the baby Jesus from birth (nativity scenes) in Mexico are held until the February 2, day of "raising" the child is removed at birth. The Mexican custom involves the "dress" the Child in a special way, recalling some element of the person of Jesus. The day two people bring these images to bless the Church, and then get somewhere important house. The tamales are such a rich ingredient in American cuisine wrapped in a corn husk or banana cooked corn dough with something that adds flavor and pre-Hispanic cultures had a profound ritual significance.
But we have not talked about the other children, really. Those children who, in a sense, are the light of the world because they are hoping that this world will not remain as we left, that there is a possibility that someone will fix it, just them. These children light up the dark road of the future of human beings, because we give meaning to live, to fight, to grow, to become better, not to fall into a rut. Children compromise the existence of adults and make them expire and not give up.
If the images remind us that God became a child, children remind us that God made us in his image. Children we have to care, respect and defend. Taking care of a culture that manipulates and uses them to interests of all kinds. We've gone from a culture in which the boy was, to a culture in which children are cared for use as bait in the economy. We have to respect them in their development, their emotional progress in their particular vision of life in education that we have to.
respect them is to give them what they need for the day who look in adolescence and begin another new phase. Is open to respect fundamental human dimensions: intelligence, will, affection, family, friendship, God. We must defend those who try to get them to stop being children, who are looking to buy machines, objects of barter among ill-assorted marriages, things that used to meet the needs of adults such malicious enclosing the capital sins (lust , greed, gluttony, sloth, pride, vanity and jealousy). We must defend the children of those trying to separate them from their family, who want to fill their hearts with things, instead of love. We must defend those who try to extinguish the light of their hearts, light that makes God's presence among us, because we do expect that in them God still loves this world.
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