“The Russian peasantry for centuries has propagated a curious tradition. It is about an old woman, the Baboushka, who was at work in her house when the wise men came from the East and passed on their way to Bethlehem to find the Child. Come with us, they said. We have seen his star in the East, and we go to worship Him. I will come but not now, I have much housework to do and when that is finished, I will follow and find him. But her work was never done. And the Three Kings had passed on their way across the desert, and the star shone no more in the darkened heavens. Baboushka never saw the Christ Child, but she is still living and searching for Him. And though she did not find Him, out of love for Him, she takes care of all His children. The tradition has it that she believes that in each poor child whom she warms and feeds, she may find the Christ Child whom she neglected long ago. But she is not doomed to disappointment, for the Divine Child said ‘he who receives one of these little ones in my name, receives me.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Rejoice)