Jesus is our path to justice and peace. In him, we know and have the justice and peace of God. In Jesus, Yahweh's covenant has been renewed, and we are called to be agents of God's shalom in the world. Christ Among Us Jesus is the Poor One among us. He identified himself with poor and hungry people and those who suffer and are in need of help.
Christians thus come face to face with a great mystery.
Christ represents himself to us in a special way in the hungry, the naked, the sick, and the prisoner. He is among us in the outcasts and the oppressed of our age. Their cry for justice is Christ's cry for justice. The very Christ who suffered and died on the cross that all might be reconciled to God is crucified again and again in the suffering and death of poor and hungry people. One of the distinguishing characteristics of the new Christian community was care for those in need.