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He is accessible, helpful, resourceful and above all has time for every one which is why is a well respected personality today in the society. On the occasion of his 60th birthday, may Almighty shower his choicest blessings on him and give him a long life to serve the society is our prayer. The Secular Citizen, Editor and team December 19, 2016 Bumper X’mas Issue 2016 15 The Season of Joy and Goodwill Irwin Almeida 16 To the Manger Born! Ladislaus L. D'Souza 17 A National FAMILY weekly Christmas: God's Concrete Act ... Leon Bent 18 Vol.25 No.51 December 19, 2016 Rs.20/- A Room in your Heart? Melville X. D'Souza 19 99, Perin Nariman Street, Fort, Mumbai - 400 001. How Class Relates to Altruism Don Aguiar 20 Tel: 022 - 2269 35 78 / 2265 49 24 Email: [email protected], [email protected] Christmasses I have known Bernie Tellis 22 Website: www.sezariworld.com Christmas and Plato's Cave Denis Khan 23 Editor-in-chief : LAWRENCE COELHO Christmas Nostalgia Sunita Valladares 24 Editor: PHILIP MYABOO Spiritual Journey for a Christian K C Thomas 26 Purathchi Thalaivi 'RIP' Ladislaus L. D'Souza 28 This Christmas, Spare a .... Vera Alvares 29 Contents Modesty A Christian Virtue Rose K. 30 Kanara Christmas - 2016. Ivan Saldanha-Shet 32 Christmas will be a celebration ... Melvyn Brown 34 There will be no issue Peace, Love and Joy of Christmas A. F. Nazreth 35 Peace on earth to men of goodwill Lestor Pinto 36 dated 26-12-2016. Forgiveness connects us to the ... 37 Our next issue will be Why is there such a sudden ... Don Aguiar 38 dated 02-01-2017 Kallianpura's Holy Rosary ... Ivan Saldanha-Shet 40 (i.e. Vol.26 No.1) The Gavle Goat Peter Castellino 42 —Publisher Do you have the Christmas spirit? 44 What exactly was the Christmas ... 45 THE SECUALR CITIZEN The Christmas Crib 46 Team The Church of the Nativity 47 Wishes Readers, Patrons, New year: A time for new ... Jubel D'Cruz 48 Friends, Well-wishers, His coming brings us closer to ... Melvyn Brown 49 Contributors When was Messiah Born? Capt. Mervin J. Lobo 51 and Who should make a will and why? 52 Advertisers Financially wise women 53 Christmas Eve 54 Merry Christmas & The feast of the Epiphany Jubel D'Cruz 55 A Peace Filled Happy Christmas Gift Melvyn Brown 56 New Year 2017 German Christmas Cake Jubel D'Cruz 57 Zwarte Piet / Black Peter Peter Castellino 58 RNI No. 56987/92 Matrimonials 60 Registered No. MCS/100/2015-17 The First Christmas Jubel D'Cruz 62 16 Bumper X’mas Issue 2016 December 19, 2016 The Season of Joy and Goodwill hristmas is the season of joy by Irwin Almeida and goodwill. Is it? Look- ing at what we see around today is malnourishment and stunting. Cus is a sordid picture of nu- Statistics reveal that five lakh Indian merous homeless citizens, the street children die from malnourishment each children, the abandoned, the destitute year. At the age of two, 38% of our and the starving. They don’t feel what children are stunted, also because of the spirit of Christmas is supposed to malnourishment. Stunting is a medical be – a season of joy, goodwill, giving term implying that they are prevented and receiving. It is also a time of re- from mentally and physically develop- flection and gratitude to God for all we ing fully. have and for sending down his Son to be among us. Sadly, over the years, Unfortunately, those in authority who the world has become selfish and self- are supposed to uplift the under-privi- centred and therefore the true spirit of leged are more concerned with putting Christmas does not reach out to those strictures on the minorities, restricting abandoned by society. what they may see, eat or drink. Whatever the festival – Diwali, Christ- The current climate of intolerance mas, New Year – these would like to seems to have aggravated the nation’s we helped. It was also realised, that celebrate, they are always faced by the conscience. The rhetoric indulged in like stress. Love has a cumulative ef- grim reality of poverty-linked problems by some of our leaders is often prob- fect. such as hunger and starvation, malnu- lematic, as it is alienating people of the trition, caste discrimination and what minority communities. Dissent and This idea has often been dismissed as not. Food is not available to the starv- freedom of speech which are funda- “altruistic egoism”, yet psychiatrists ing millions, yet the nation’s granaries mental rights is in a way ignored. have identified altruism as one of the are over-flowing, and stocks are wast- qualities that help even the most poor- ed, states are refusing to share their Yet, no matter, everyone knows it is ly adjusted to deal with the stresses of river waters while rainfall has been in Christmas and people are willing to life. The reverse is also true, and hold- abundance. dismiss this background temporarily, ing on to things you should be giving to join the world in celebrating this joy- away could lead to ill health. Gift giving What a pity that even over half a cen- ous festival of peace and goodwill. It does not always mean the wrapped up tury of independence, India finds itself is time to remember after all that what parcel with a greeting card we are so at acritical juncture.