President of Malta thankful in her last Christmas message
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President Marie Louise Coleiro Preca thanked everyone during her message for Christmas.
In her last Christmas message, the President dearly thanked the people who “as your President you have welcomed me, were gentle with me, understood my limitations both as President and as a person, and participated with us with enthusiasm so that work for the wellbeing of society does not stop and continues to grow”.
TVM reports that the the President stated that “unity makes us a beautiful people and it makes us more beautiful when we assist those who are in suffering, in need”.
She thanked the people who voiced their suffering “which in a moment or other instances, it may be that we created it ourselves because we continued moving on and pretended not to hear our female neighbour shouting because her husband was beating her; or maybe we did not ask why that elderly person has not been seen for a week; or we pretend we do not know that this evening there are a few or many persons sleeping under a pavement, in a car or a garage. Or worse, when we ignored that child who failed to arrived on shore because he or she had drowned”.
She said that this makes her remember in Mary and Joseph, Jesus parents, who had traveled and found a cave and, surrounded by animals, a boy was born who changed the world into love.
She thanked the female youth who has a depression and told her “I feel very hurt when they tell me to stand up and get used to things; you do not need anything, Christmas is near”. The President said she understood that there is lack of awareness on mental health.
For the new year, she said that we will make a resolution to deliver the campaign against child beatings, a campaign that reaches everyone especially the children themselves. “No, no one has the right to beat you, even if you erred, even to correct you”.
President Coleiro Preca thanked the Maltese and Gozitans, saying that peace between us does not mean we do not voice our concerns in front of injustices. Our greetings in these days for peace in our lives means justice.
