1998Christmas - First Day Cover

Another night is approaching, the longest night in the year. The celebration of the birth of the Son of our Lord yet again announces hopes in people's hearts as well as expectations that the next year will be better. These hopes are the greatest blessing that keeps coming every Christmas. The new millennium, for which we have already started counting days to arrive at, is almost before us. The 2000 years since the birth of Christ have not much changed the man. Only the environment around us has changed. Man's spirit has remained the same. This is why, even today, we can quote the words from the Old Testament, equally valid and equally warning. These words can always help us become better people. People who will enrich their and their neighbour's homes and make it accommodating to their fellow-creatures.