The Miracles of Love


I was listening to Cliff Richard the Pop Star introducing his Carol 'A Miracle of Love' when I realised that what he said was profound.   The Carol is about Christmas being about the baby, not the tinsels nor the parties, nor the celebrations.  He went on to say that in the Carol he never mentions God - for we know who the baby is. I got his point.   When we think of the nativity we think of the baby somehow being God and yet we still think God is looking down on him from Heaven.   But the baby and God are one and the same.   The baby is God humbling himself to share in our humanity, and in doing so has become a weak, vulnerable human being.  Cliff called his song 'The Miracle of Love', for how can God the creator love those he created so much
The Nativity scene is the first of two later Miracles of Love, when this God allowed himself to be crucified and suffered all the pains and anguish of his creatures, and the third Miracle of Love we find in our Tabernacles and when we attend Mass and receive Holy Communion, for just as he has given us animals to eat to preserve our bodies, He has given us Himself as food for our souls.   What a wonderful and slightly mad God we have!

Many Christians have at this time of the year a crib in their homes as well as a crib in their Churches.   But let us not just have them around us as a testimony of our Faith.   Let us through the crib learn to pray and think of this miracle of love.  Let a family set aside a time to pray before the crib just as on Good Friday we kiss the Cross and on every Sunday receive our Lord, both with reverence and when possible on our knees, for we are not worthy of such love.
















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