Christmas Novena – Day 4 Tuesday, December 19, 2023 Humiliation was another misfortune that the Divinity had to endure within incarnation. ‘The child wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger’ was a choice that Jesus made, and he was comfortable with it. Though Jesus embraced lowliness and poverty willingly, others had problems with […]
Christmas Novena – Day 3 Monday, December 18, 2023 It is not just that Jesus was born as a man and as a child. But Jesus was also born poor. Jesus’ parents were ordinary village people with no affluent background. His father was a carpenter. Born to those parents in Bethlehem, away from his native
Christmas Novena – Day 2 Sunday, December 17, 2023 God is born as a human. The God of infinite glory lowers Himself to assume the corruptible human form. This is the truth of the incarnation. But why was he born as a child? Why wasn’t he created as an adult like Adam or Eve? After
