Christmas: Focusing on Poverty

At Christmas, Christian eyes focus on poverty. When God sent his only Son into our darkness, He expressed a “preferential option for the poor.” He chose to be born among them: in a stable, on the straw, in an era of almost universal poverty among the 170 million persons then alive on earth. And three rich kings paid homage.

So must we all. In honoring the poor—in actually helping the poor— we honor the Lord, in the way He most wishes to be honored.