God is With Us
Oscar Romero’s Christmas greeting from nearly 40 years ago still rings true as we continue our Christmas journey.
In this year of disease, racism, sadness, and loss, we have learned many lessons of humility spirit.
We are not taking the gifts of faith and life for granted. We are thinking of the needs others.
Oscar Romero’s Christmas greeting from nearly 40 years ago still rings true as we continue our Christmas journey.
No one can celebrate a genuine Christmas
without being truly poor.
The self-sufficient,
the proud,
those who, because they have everything,
look down on others,
those who have no need even of God—
for them there will be no Christmas.
Only the poor,
the hungry,
those who need someone to come on their behalf,
will have that someone.
That someone is God,
Emmanuel,
God-with-us.
Without poverty of spirit
there can be no abundance of God.
When the poor have nowhere to rest their bodies,
and their children fleeing from the cold
find only hammocks
strung up in the fields and coffee groves,
we must recall that the Savior’s good news is for all.
The happiness of the Lord who created us
to fulfill his salvation is everyone’s.
– December 24, 1978
Let us share the gift of the Christ Child with all the world.
