Br. Josemaría Guzmán-Domínguez, O.P., on Jesus Being Born into Poverty

"We tend to romanticize Christ's birth. The sweetness of our carols, crèches, and Christmas cookies often leads us to think that the first Christmas was equally sweet.

"We forget Joseph toiled to find a place for Mary to give birth. We don't remember how Our Lady suffered the wintry cold. We feel comfortable when we recall the cave where Christ was born. But it doesn't cross our mind that the straw the Infant slept on 'probably stank as old straw stinks in stables' (Catherine Doherty). We forget, in a word, that Jesus Christ was born into poverty."

In a recent commentary, Brother Josemaría Guzmán-Domínguez, O.P., reflected on the importance, as we participate in our Christmas traditions, of not forgeting "Christ's poverty, and his (our) poor brothers and sisters he came to fill."

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Dominicana: Born into Poverty (24 DEC 19)