Christmas: food for thought...

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In Charles Dickens' classic, A Christmas Carol, two businessmen approach Ebeneezer Scrooge to solicit a donation for the poor, noting that 

Christmas is a time, of all others,

when want is keenly felt and abundance rejoices...

Those are words worthy of our reflection...

This morning, between Masses, I noticed B and P, an older couple in our parish, doing what they do all the time: collecting canned goods deposited in the baskets at our church doors and gathering them for delivery to Lazarus House.

In so many ways, for many of us, everything stops at Christmas as we take a break from the day-to-day and relax and feast with family and friends.

But homelessness, hunger and all manner of harm take no holiday and the desperate needs they heap on the shoulders of the poor weigh even more heavily when those all around are rejoicing in abundance and excess.

B and P were a good reminder for me this morning that all our Giving Trees and Toy, Food and Clothing Drives serve a need whose season never ends.

Today we celebrate Christ's birth but every day of the year calls us to serve those who live the poverty into which Jesus was born.

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