We don’t normally entertain gloomy messages for Christmas. In fact, the Advent season is supposed to open a season of joy leading to celebrating the gift of the Emmanuel, “God is with us” (Matthew:1:23), and rightly so. Joy is the normal beat and rhythm of the season. The birth of Jesus, at least in Matthew’s script (chapter 2), profiles a “twin narrative” that is meant to hold together the contradictions between joy and fate. Between the elation of the “Star-search people” (v.10) and the fate of the “Rachel people”? Jesus’ birth was supposed to hold memory of both. Today we are so overwhelmed by the triumphant episode of his birth that we easily lose sight of the memory of the fated, the doomed, and the victims of systems of powers who are often pushed to the margins of remembrance during this season. On the one hand, the “Star-search people” are represented by the wise men from the East who searched for the celestial star, the holy family, the gifts, and the realisation of the prophesy “but you, Bethlehem…for out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel” (v.6). On the other hand, the “Rachel people” (2:13-18)