Read the Lectionary Texts Well, there goes the neighborhood! Can you picture the cast of characters assembled at one time or another around the birth of Christ? Jewish mother. Jewish husband. Jewish shepherds, keeping watch over Jewish sheep in Jewish fields on a dark Jewish night, summoned to the Jewish town of Bethlehem by Jewish angels singing in the Jewish sky to welcome the Jewish Messiah predicted by Jewish prophets on page after page of the Jewish scriptures. Do you get the picture? It is a perfect Jewish Christmas! Until the magi show up! And there goes the neighborhood! [READ MORE]