[Image Description: The first image is a nighttime photograph of a nativity scene where St. Joseph, baby Jesus, and Mary are in three separate wire-on-woodframe cages that are placed three to five feet apart. St. Joseph and Mary are standing and reaching toward baby Jesus, lying in the manger all by himself. Behind the cage holding baby Jesus is a pole on which is mounted the Christmas star.
The second image is of a sign presumably posted nearby. It reads:
In a time in our country when refugee families seek asylum at our borders and are unwillingly separated from one another, we consider the most well-known refugee family in the world, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, the Holy Family.
Shortly after the birth of Jesus, Joseph and Mary were forced to flee with their young son from Nazareth to Egypt to escape King Herod, a tyrant. They feared persecution and death.
What if this family sought refuge in our country today?
Imagine Joseph and Mary separated at the border and Jesus, no older than two, taken from his mother and placed behind the fences of a Border Patrol detention center as more than 5,500 children have been the past three years.
Jesus grew up to teach us kindness and mercy
and a radical welcome of all people.
He said: “I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me.” - Mtthew 25:35
In the Claremont United Methodist Church nativity scene this Christmas, the Holy Family takes the place of thousands of nameless families separated at our borders.
Inside the church, you will see this same family reunited, the Holy Family together, in a nativity that joins the angels in singing
“Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace and good will to all.” - Luke 2:14
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