Remembering and celebrating Jesus’ birth in a manger there is no better time to re-new our commitment to the vulnerable, the poor, the inequalities we see and experience. We beg the question, who are the widows, the orphans, the strangers in our world? How do we challenge, how do we show solidarity, how can our activism be put into practice? 

Fr Tom from the Holy Name of Mary Church, Middlesbrough, in one of his recent ‘Talking to myself reflections’ writes how the baby in the manger “is enough for children but that adults will be expected to move beyond that”. With this in mind, in the context of our Movement, the realities abound. 

The European Christian Workers Movement (ECWM) have produced six short reflections based on words taken from this Gospel event to stimulate and thought-provoke so that we can start to move “away from the crib”, lift the words off the page and make sense of them in our own day to day reality and experience during 2021http://mtceurope.org/en