Christmas message of Common Candidate Maithripala Sirisena
As the Common Candidate contesting on 8 January 2015 to be elected as President of The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, I consider myself fortunate that I have received the opportunity to address all Christians in Sri Lanka as they prepare to celebrate the Christmas season.
Each year in December, we commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ, the Son of God who came to earth to redeem the world from sin. The nativity story reminds all Christians that God did not choose a woman from high society to bring forth his son into the world but a young and incorrupt girl who led an ordinary life in Jewish Society. Christians will also reflect over the Christmas season that Jesus Christ was born to the Blessed Virgin Mary in a cattle shed and laid in a manger.
This is how God humbled himself to bring his own Son into the world of men. Humility therefore is an important value of Christianity and it is a value to be cultivated and upheld by the devotees of any religion.
The life story of Jesus Christ, born two millennia ago tells us that his whole life was devoted to battling injustice. He waged this struggle against rulers and high priests who were corrupt. He tried to show them the way.
His Holiness Pope Francis recalled on 8 November 2013 that in one of his sermons Christ said, “It would be better for him (a corrupt person) if a millstone was put around his neck and he be thrown into the sea.” His Holiness Pope Francis on this occasion described the people engaged in corruption as ‘whitewashed tombs’ and explained ‘they appear beautiful from outside but inside they are dead bones and putrefaction’. His Holiness observed that ‘those who take kickbacks have lost their dignity and give their children dirty bread’ and prayed ‘that the Lord may change the hearts of those who worshiped the kickback god’.
My dear Christian brothers and sisters, as you prepare to celebrate the birth of Christ, I urge the community to think of the mission of Jesus Christ on earth and the principles for which he strived and ultimately sacrificed his life. I fervently hope that you will resolve to emulate him every day. Those who follow Christ the great teacher, will no doubt become righteous people to be admired and emulated in turn by all right thinking citizens of the country.
As we all eagerly await the arrival of His Holiness Pope Francis in our motherland, it is also apt for all Christians to give effect to his preaching by their own way of life.
I hope that your firm resolution to follow Jesus Christ will kindle in your hearts peace and tranquillity which will in turn bring the joy of Christmas to your homes and all those around you.
May I take this opportunity dear brothers and sisters to remind you that at a time our country is embroiled in corruption it is the duty of every Christian to act and live in consonance with the principles that Christ enunciated so that our motherland will be a place you and your children can live in with dignity and honour.
From the bottom of my heart I wish all Christian brethren a blessed, peaceful and a happy Christmas.
Since Christmas is a time that children enjoy the most, I take this opportunity to wish them all a joyous Christmas and a happy holiday season.
(Courtesy: FT.LK)
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It should read like:-
….. Thank you very much for not asking me why I was in the cabinet many years without raising concerns during the cabinet meetings or in private, or resigning and then at the end of the full-term suddenly found everything MR does all wrong and decided to be the opposition candidate …….
……. also thank you for not asking to explain how and what mechanisms I will be using to rid the corruption in the Srilankan society………
”””’ and not asking what to do when the parties that has come together (eg. TNA, JHU) start getting at each others throat after the election……..
This is my Christmas message to the Christians in SL:
Dear voters, Go and read this Bloomberg article fully, an excerpt is given below. Think before you vote.
The clash among former associates has turned a probable walkover into a competitive race, threatening the stability that has prompted the island’s $67 billion economy to expand about 7 percent per year on average since the war’s end. A Sirisena victory also risks disrupting Sri Lanka’s growing ties with China, its largest investor and second-biggest trade partner.
“A Sirisena administration would immediately run into big problems between its disparate alliance partners,” Sasha Riser-Kositsky, an analyst at Eurasia Group in Washington, said by e-mail. “I expect significant political instability should the ‘anybody but Rajapaksa’ coalition succeed in ousting him.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-23/betrayal-after-dinner-makes-sri-lanka-presidential-race-personal.html
Judas MS is a puppet of imperial West and failed politicians, Ranil, CBK, SF, PCR etc. They will destroy our country which has been rebuilt by Hon Mahinda Rajapksa. The N & E will be signed over to Tamil Nationalists. The flood gates will then be opened for mass migration of Tamils from Tamil Nadu. SL will then be part of greater Tamil Nadu which secede from India to be autonomous. What will be the fate of Sinhalese and the Sri Lankan nation then?
Hence let your New Year Resolution be same as mine:
VOTE IN OUR MILLIONS TO RE-ELECT HON MAHINDA RAJAPKSA AS PRESIDENT, THE TRUE ‘FATHER OF THE NATION’ SINCE 1948.
We saw what happened before MR. UK Withholding spare parts for SLAF helicopters, what the SL army had to let go Prabha the terror leader twice after cornering him, what Solheim did, EU harming the SL apparel exports to the EU etc.
When MR gone, of course the China will go too. Then to stay in power, to quell public demands, the new saviour of the SL nation of all its ills will be dependent on EU, US, UK aid. Then the demands will come from the EU, UK, US politicians depends on the diaspora block votes, including handing over MR and the SL forces personnel required by ‘them’ for the so called ‘Tamil genocide’. Maithri will meekly surrender and tell SL people ‘he had to do that to save Sri Lanka’s economy’. We will be back to square one fighting another protracted eelam war burning nation’s entire GDP, since the voters relied on a traitor and a puppet to rid us of society’s corruption, because they did not asked difficult questions.
There are three kinds of people in this country.
1. Those who love MR.
2. Those who hate MR.
3. Those who do not know what the hell is going on in this country. (The type that cares about only eating, sleeping and being merry)
I wish to add a fourth kind of people to Sundara’s list of 3.
4. those who do not have the time or the enrgy to care about what’s going on in the country because all energy and time available is spent on how to keep the roof over the family’s head and where to get that single teabag for the family’s consumption for tomorrow.
Politics and constitution and executive president and the rest of the ho, ho are for those who are born rich in a family with a Name (eg: RW, CBK, Mangala S, Rajapaksa) and to those who aspire to join the ruling classess by amassing wealth through whatever means (wealth is considered not a resource but power) and to those who make a living out of bootlicking politicians and to those who live in white man’s lands overseas, leading structured lives and enjoying leisure.
If you are a Sri Lankan living in Sri Lanka with intentions of earning an honest living and providing a decent living for your family, you simply cannot afford the luxury of following politics and politicians and their stupid games.
There is a man calling himself the common canditate and this man happens to be the greatest betrayor of a relationship he has had with the leader of our the land. This man walked out of the leader’s house without even letting the servants in that house know that he is leaving. This action is an insult to the Sri Lankan way of life and culture. How can anyone be expected to vote for this man? He is uncouth and uncultured. He protected his offspring who had clearly violated the law of the land. He is silent about what he did. What prevents him from acting similarly in future? He, in his white clothes and blackened hair is a disgusting sight.