Christmas meditation from Nigeria

Msgr. Hypolite Adigwe was a fellow student and friend of HIFA co-founder Dr. Aaron Ekwu (+ 1989).

They studied together in Vienna. (Left photo: Hypolite Adigwe, right: Aaron Ekwu)

Your people are suffering Lord!
Do you not see that?
Your people are dying Lord!
Are you not aware?

We have knocked at your door
It seems to remain closed
And rather we got the news
It is total lockdown

Joseph knocked at doors
No one had opened any
For there was no room left
For your Christ Jesus

So they chose the manger
To share with the beasts
And that was just the room
Ready for your Son

Now we cry to you Lord
how us the manger too
So we can lodge with beasts
To escape from the corona

And when the evil wind goes
Shall we open the gates
To strike a new human life
That makes room for all?

Hypolite Adigwe
Christmas, 2020