Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Families driven from their homes (Fr. Ron Rolheiser OMI)


  Today, the Christ-Child can be seen in the countless refugee children who, with their families, are being driven from their homes by violence, war, starvation, ethnic cleansing, poverty, tribalism, racism, and religious persecution.  They, and their families, best fit the picture of Joseph and Mary, searching for a room, outsiders, powerless, uninvited, no home, no one to take them in, on the periphery, strangers, labeled as aliens.

--Fr. Ron Rolheiser,
Facebook, December 10, 2017

Image source: Kim Young Gil, The Flight to Egypt, https://thejesusquestion.org/2016/01/04/maria-von-trapp-plus-seven-artists-on-jesus-the-refugee/ (To view other powerful images of the Holy Family as refugees, visit this site!)

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