So this is Christmas! An Essential Christmas!
It’s the surprise of every year: it’s Christmas time again!
An essential Christmas = a Christmas for everyone
It was 1972 when John Lennon together with Yōko Ono released So this is Christmas (War is Over), the song born in protest against the war in Vietnam. It later became one of the recognized Christmas classics around the world.
Times have changed, the context too, but the words of this song are still relevant!
And so this is Christmas
For weak and for strong
For rich and the poor ones
The war is so long
And so happy Christmas (war is over)
For black and for white (if you want it)
For yellow and red ones (war is over)
Let’s stop all the fight (now)
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Last year, Gen Verde released the song “God with us, Emmanuel”, with one of the verses:
We will be the sky
who will welcome you
house and cradle that
it will warm you.
A commitment for the Essential Christmas?
We wanted to look for the common denominator for these two texts. Here it is: living the essential!
The essential is respect for each other (however different he/she may be), the essential is the tenderness and warmth that we can give to the people next to us (or, for those who believe it, to God present in the people next to us). The essential thing is to keep relationships!
And this is why this Christmas there are two invitations:
Let's donate the Essential
There can be many ideas for essential gifts. This year we wanted to focus on what makes us feel good, good quality food products, capable of satisfying the taste needs of even the most capricious, put together in various compositions of Made in Loppiano Gift Boxes.
Let's bring the Essential
The symbol of the nativity scene is the one that expresses an extreme essentiality: a stable in which not even God is ashamed of making himself small among men. If he did it, how necessary is it today to bring (or generate) his presence there, where no one is waiting for it anymore.
