Christmas message – Lutherans: ‘God is with us even at our lowest’

“God the comforter is with us even when we have to descend to our depths in order to appreciate the light from on High,” Bishop Tamás Fabiny, the head of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hungary, told MTI on Friday.

“Christmas and our meeting with Jesus can once again bring light into our lives burdened by the pandemic, as it did for Joseph and Mary at the time of the first Christmas,” he said.

“Christians believe that God doesn’t abandon us even when we’re at our lowest because he is the God of heights and depths,”

the bishop said.

Meanwhile, Fabiny said that thanks to the vaccines, members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church were again attending worship services, albeit in fewer numbers than before the lockdown. He said the makeup of those attending church had also changed, adding that “many of the elderly haven’t found their way back yet”. However,

the worship services are now being attended by more young people who found the church through the online services during the lockdown,

Fabiny said.

The bishop also touched on the International Eucharistic Congress held in Budapest in September, highlighting the cooperation among the various Christian denominations at the event.