“When the angels announced the birth of the Redeemer to the
shepherds, they did so with these words:
“This will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.” (Lk 2:12).
The "sign" is the humility of God taken to the extreme;
it is the love with which, that night, he assumed our frailty, our suffering,
our anxieties, our desires and our limitations. The message that everyone was
expecting, that everyone was searching for in the depths of their souls, was
none other than the tenderness of God: God who looks upon us with eyes full of
love, who accepts our poverty, God who is in love with our smallness.” - Pope
Francis
Nativity of Christ, El Greco, 1603.
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