It is only the poor and hungry, those who know they need someone to come on their behalf, who can celebrate Christmas.
-- Oscar Romero
Despite the misgivings of those who've benefitted from the wealthy-western world, this observation seems quite consistent with the historical view, including that of Mary herself:
When Mary sings of God in the Magnificat, she didn’t say that God looked with favor on her virtue. She didn’t say that God looked with favor upon her activism. She didn’t say that God looked with favor on the fact that she had tried so hard that she finally had become the ideal version of herself.
No.
God looked with favor on her lowliness.
-- Nadia Bolz-Weber
