At this very moment, I have a flyer in hand, made by a town in the area, which advertises the Christmas initiatives. It is a document that is aimed at families with young children. On it, on the first page, the two of them are drawn.



Few know it, but the so-called Santa Claus is nothing more than an advertising stunt with which a well-known company that produces and sells sugary drinks, the biggest of all in that field, tried to combine its brand with the Christmas holiday. Christmas. It succeeded so well, and ran such extensive advertising campaigns (globally) that fat Santa Claus has now completely supplanted the Carpenter's Son in the imagination of younger children. Santa Claus brings gifts. The Carpenter's Son, what the hell does he bring you? Nothing at all... It's easy to put two, plus two together, in the minds of the smallest human beings. From an early age. And as for her companion, and colleague, or the Befana, she is, and will always remain, a witch. In the recent vulgate, she is a witch who has become good. But this is always what any type of witch tries to make you understand. She does not exist, and will never exist, a good witch.

In short, in the space of a very short time, these two characters managed to totally commercialize and secularize the most sacred religious holiday which originated from the words of the Carpenter's Son. I'm scrolling through all the initiatives that are in the flyer I have at hand. Except for a concert by a Gospel choir, among other things in English, that is, in a language absolutely incomprehensible to younger children, all the rest, that is 45 different initiatives, none of them, I repeat, none of them have in any way what to do with the real birthday boy. That is, with the Carpenter's Son, when he was in swaddling clothes, inside a manger.



We succeeded in the admirable feat of completely anesthetizing everything. I challenge many modern families, often completely without a child, or, at most, with only one child, perhaps mixed up, or with separated, divorced, or remarried parents, to go around the churches in the area, to see the nativity scenes of the year 2023.

“But when the son of man returns, will he find faith on Earth?”

Ask yourself the same question too. And give yourself the answer. Otherwise, call that cultural association in Rome, the one I sent my letter to. In that Day, there will be no "ifs," and there will be no "buts," said poor Isaiah, in the streets of Israel.






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