Kissing the Christ Child
Here’s a video showing St. Josemaria with some young people who brought him a figure of the Christ Child. He talks to them and blesses them with it. One of the things I’ve always loved about St. Josemaria is how he likes to put himself in the scenes from the gospels. Are we putting ourselves in the scene with the manger and the newborn child today?
From Christ is Passing By, 36:
“…a child is born in Bethlehem.”
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