Kienu r-rgħajja l-ewwel li waslu, sabu u raw dak li kien tħabbrilhom mill-anġli: lil Marija, Ġużeppi u liċ-ċkejken Ġesù. Kienu dawn in-nies sempliċi u fqar, li iżda kienu lesti li jilqgħu dak li bagħat jgħidilhom il-Mulej permezz tal-anġli u mill-ewwel telqu sabiex jaraw lil dak li kien ġie mħabbar lilhom, kienu bnedmin disponibli li jisimgħu u jitilqu mill-ewwel u ma ħallew xejn ifixkilhom jew iżommhom milli jaqbdu t-triq lejn l-għar. Jaslu hemmek u jsibu familja, famija ċkejkna u fqira….

In Exodus 33, Moses converses with God in plea to have God show him His face. In so doing, Moses was perhaps expressing his deep desire to connect to God who not only was not preoccupied with Moses’ own human incapabilities, but, to the contrary, considered these very same limitations as having instrumental value with respect to the divine plan for the salvation of His chosen people. So while God did not accede to Moses’ request to directly reveal…

Humans are social animals. Communication is an important part of our being. We communicate almost all the time, using either speech or body language. Apart from being social, we are also rational animals. We therefore have a need to communicate thoughts, feelings and emotions. In our day to day communication, words flow naturally when we need to talk to each other. However, expressing feelings and emotions is much more tricky. In fact, words might not always do…