Now for Little Christmas...the Feast of the 3 Kings! (con'd)

The beginning of a "Blessing before a Christmas Stable" by BY Father Peter John Cameron, O.P.

(Magnificat Advent Companion, December 3 - December 25, 2017, pp. 46-48)

"No one , whether shepherd or wise man, can approach God here below except by kneeling before the manger at Bethlehem and adoring him hidden in the weakness of a new-born child." (CCC563)

Lord Jesus, as I kneel before your manger in Adoration, let my first Christmas word be: thank you. THANK YOU, Gift of the Father, for coming to save me from my sins...Without you, I do not know even how to be human. The characteristics of your human body express the divine Person of God's Son. And in that wondrous expression, Lord, you reveal me to myself. Thank you for that saving revelation in your sacred humanity. As the Christmas Liturgy proclaims, "For through him the holy exchange that restores our life has shone forth today in splendor." Thank you for coming as one like myself to save me from myself...