In what can only be called as a Christmas miracle, a Massachussetts police officer bought a Christmas meal for a family in need instead of charging the two women with shoplifting, CNN reported.

On December 20, Somerset Police Officer Matt Lima was called to a Stop and Shop grocery store after store security suspected two women of shoplifting some items, according to a statement on the police department’s website.

The women, accompanied by two children, were stopped as they were about to leave the store.

“I have two girls myself, similar on age to the two girls that were there, so it kind of struck me a little bit,” Lima told CNN.

In an effort to reach to the bottom of the story, Lima spoke to one of the women while the kids were kept occupied by store employees.

“The woman I talked to, she explained she was working, but the mother of the children was not working and had some other family issues going on and that what she had taken was Christmas dinner for the kids,” Lima told CNN.

He scanned the receipt that corroborated the woman’s story.

“Obviously, this family was in need and I can’t imagine having to make the decision to go to Stop & Shop and just only pay for what I can afford — or do I go there and try to take things for Christmas dinner for the kids?” Lima told CNN.

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Instead of pressing charges, he served them with a notice not to trespass. A messiah, he purchased a $250 gift card for the women so they could buy groceries at another store.