Jesus is the one who finds us. Every time you sin, every time I sin, we wander away like lost sheep, and he keeps coming back to us and coming back to us. Indeed, like the story today, sometimes it s his mother who brings him to us. As beautiful as the picture of the manger is to us, a stable is a place for animals. It s dirty.
Stables are, by definition, a mess.
He visited the home of Jairus, where there was weeping and wailing because Jairus daughter had died. Jesus comes to us not because we re ready Jesus comes to us because we need him. Jesus comes to us because we are sinners, and we need a savior. We have a seminarian named David Phillipson, who grew up in New York City. Although he was baptized as a child, he never lived his Catholic faith.