“We must not make the sentimental mistake of thinking Our Lord was just a poor man.  He was a rich person who became a poor man.  Rich he was in his divine nature because he was God, and Lord of heaven and earth.  And yet despite that richness he became poor, principally because he became man.  That is poverty of the worst kind, because it is limitation.  He who was born poor in a stable could have been born rich in a palace by the Tiber.  Roman legions might have guarded him at his birth, instead of an ox and an ass.  No one would have expected that he who made the warmth of the sun would be warmed by the breath of oxen; nor that he who owned the earth would be homeless on the earth.  It is no wonder then that the first to come to his crib were the rich and the poor Shepherds.  Two things happened to them – the rich lost their avarice, for they gave their wealth to the poor; the poor lost their envy, for they learned that there is another wealth than that which the rich give away.”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Liberty, Equality and Fraternity)A