Fr. Beck: ‘The Story of Christmas Is About a Palestinian Jew’

EXCERPT:

BECK: “What I'm so struck by is that the story of Christmas is about a Palestinian Jew. Now, how often do you find those words put together. A Palestinian Jew born into a time when his country was occupied, right? They can't find a place for her to even give birth. His mother, they're homeless. They eventually have to flee as refugees, into Egypt, no less. I mean, you can't make up the parallels to our current world situation right now. And so in some way, that is who we believe, God becomes, born into that situation. And yet that very man, Jesus, says, love one another, love your enemies. There is hope. There is light in the darkness. I'm attesting to that. So somehow that God enters that experience of suffering and that struggle and is actually born into it. That is what is so miraculous about this celebration for me.”