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| Baby Jesus in Manger, Gina Carter |
When the fullness of time comes, no philosophical genius, no Plato or Socrates appears to fulfill the mission of redemption. Nor does a powerful conqueror, another Alexander, take over the earth.
Instead a child is born in Bethlehem. He it is who is to redeem the world.
But before he speaks he loves with deeds. It is no magic formula he brings, because he knows that the salvation he offers must pass through human hearts.
What does he first do? He laughs and cries and sleeps defenseless, as a baby, though he is God incarnate.
And he does this so that we may fall in love with him, so that we may learn to take him in our arms. (St. Josemaria Escriva, Christ is Passing By, 36)St. Josemaria was visiting with some of "his children" in Rome in 1972 when someone handed him a statue of Baby Jesus. Watch what follows.
How awesome is it that we live in a time and place where we can actually see and hear the words from the saints themselves?
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