Raymond J. de Souza: Even after Bondi, a light of hope shines through the darkness |
Jews this week again feel burned. In these days, gentiles who extend a hand to share those burdens can be a tiny flame of light
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Judaism is a Mediterranean religion — thus too is Christianity — but we forget that Mediterranean means northern hemisphere. Hanukkah’s candles are lit in the darkest days of the year, just as Christ’s birth is marked just as the days begin to get longer. Lights come into the world when the darkness is darkest.
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December though Down Under is summertime. Families go to the beach at Christmastime, as Jews in Sydney were at Bondi Beach for Hannukah. The resonance of seasonal observances differs if the lights come when the days are longest and the sun shines brightest. This year the darkness did come in December. Man can always bring the darkness.
Catholics have something similar to lighting the menorah on successive days. Our Advent wreaths have four candles, which we light successively on the four Sundays before Christmas. There are not fixed prayers for the Advent wreath, and this year I misplaced the ones I had used for years. New ones had to be composed.
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