To me, Advent is the season of the poor. Poverty has not been created by God. We are the ones who have created poverty. Before God, we are all poor. Jesus is the one we take care of, visit, clothe, feed and comfort every time we do any of these for the poorest of the poor, the sick, the dying, the lepers and the ones who suffer from Aids. Should we not serve the poor like they were Jesus? We have refused to be instruments of love in the hands of God, to give the poor a piece of bread, to offer them a dress with which to ward off the cold: this has happened because we did not recognise Christ when, once more, he appeared under the guise of pain, identified with a man numb from the cold, dying of hunger, when he came in a lonely human being, in a lost child in search of a home. God can work