Fr. Bryan Massingale, SJ
US CATHOLIC
Of all the homilies I have preached, the one that aroused some of the most impassioned objections was one I gave on the Epiphany. I wondered aloud about the gifts the magi brought to a newborn baby, suggesting that instead of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, more practical gifts might have included baby formula, warm clothes, and Pampers. Two parishioners approached me afterward agitated, disturbed, and upset. One screamed in my face, “Baby Jesus didn’t need Pampers!” I replied, “That would make him a very strange baby.
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