WE adopt for today’s editorial the most appropriate message for Christmas Message 2016 by Archbishop of Manila +Luis Antonio G. Cardinal Tagle, as follows:

One detail of the account of Jesus’ birth in St. Luke’s Gospel that has captured the imagination of generations of Christians goes this way: “She [Mary] wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn” (Luke 2:7). The lack of room in the travelers’ inn led Mary and Joseph to the manger. The Filipino tradition of Panuluyan has creatively attributed the lack of room not only to the crowds present in Bethlehem but also to the refusal of owners of houses to let Mary and Joseph in. We can see the influence of St. John’s Gospel where it states, “He came to what was his own, but his own people did not accept him” (John 1:11). But no matter what the interpretation, the fact remains that Jesus was born outside of the town.

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