Football – the beautiful game- For Christmas
Saint Luke, Chapter Two and its numerous verses tell of what Christians refer to as the Nativity – the story of the birth of the Christ Child. After a matured Joseph had overcome grave doubts about Mary’s pregnancy and his dubious then gracious role relevant to the pending Birth. There are other accounts but St Luke spent much time chronicling this bedrock of Christian belief and faith. It is also beautiful story-telling.
Now here am I, with these lines, by no means an activist believer, loving the literary creativity of Luke, one of the saintly apostles. There are different approaches to Holy Biblical accounts even among devout Christians – those who merely accept the word and many who question or analyse elements of their theology. My task here is to invite celebrants to eschew/reject the more bacchanalian commercialisation of the Festival and spend more moments to consider the history of a grand spiritual experience and event.
