Today, we meditate the birth of the Eternal Son of God - in Bethlehem, as it had been prophesied - and the Virgin wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them (cf. Lk 2,7). Reflecting with faith, we find in these words a parallelism with what was said in the "Prologue of Saint John" (1,11): "He came to his own, yet his own people did not receive him". There is no place for the Savior of the world! He who was crucified outside the gates of the city was also born outside its walls.

This should make us think and refer to the change of values that are in the figure of Jesus Christ, in his message. From his birth, He does not belong to that important and powerful environment that was according to the world. And yet, precisely this irrelevant and powerless man is revealed as the really Powerful one.

-To be a Christian means to leave the range of what everyone thinks and wants, of the dominant criteria, to enter into the light of the truth about our being.