It can be easy to romanticize the Nativity,
to sing Little Drummer Boy and imagine myself as a shepherd standing
off to the side. The real story of
Christmas, however, reveals the brokenness and heartache of our world. It reveals Jesus who came not to the
powerful, but rather called the powerful to realize their need for reconciliation.
The Nativity is a story that demands I reconcile myself to Christ, to the poor
and oppressed, and to creation.
Ultimately, Christ became incarnate to enable this reconciliation,
destroy death, and establish justice in our world.
--Ken Homan, S.J.,
To read all of Fr.
Homan’s article in The Jesuit Post,
click here.
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