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Does the Lineage of Christ Matter? – Catholic Stand

Is it important for one to reflect upon the ancestry leading up to the Birth of Christ? Or, should one simply be content that God the Father sent Christ to enter time by taking on flesh in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary?
It is clear, that God chose a people to be His own:
For you are a people holy to the LORD, your God; the LORD, your God, has chosen you from all the peoples on the face of the earth to be a people specially his own. It was not because you are more numerous than all the peoples that the LORD set his heart on you and chose you; for you are really the smallest of all peoples. It was because the LORD loved you and because of his fidelity to the oath he had sworn to your ancestors, that the Lord brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. Know, then, that the LORD, your God, is God: the faithful God who keeps covenant mercy to the thousandth generation toward those who love him and keep his …