God Became a Baby: A Christmas message
A Bishop Robert Barron video
As we gather for Christmas with family and friends, it is likely that someone, at some point, will bring in a newborn. And everybody will want to see the baby. The whole room will stop whatever they are doing to see this child. There is something irresistibly charming about babies; they bring out the best in us and call forth love from us. Well, at the centre of our Christmas celebration is a strange, astonishing fact: God became a baby. The all-powerful Creator of the universe, the reason why there is something rather than nothing, became a baby too weak even to raise his own head. This was a stroke of divine genius. Again and again the Hound of Heaven sought us out, and again and again we ran away. But who can finally resist the baby who is God?
Bishop Robert Barron: God Became a Baby
Image: The Adoration of the Shepherds, depicting the birth of Christ, Gerard van Honthorst (1622).