God has become a child, and so he wants first to be known and adored by a
child, and this is one of the first emanations of the childhood of God,
manifesting himself to the universe. God is a child, the world ignores,
heaven adores, and a child is the first person in the universe to
recognize and adore him, and he does so by the homage and secret
operation of God himself, who wants to act upon children. He wants to
honor himself as child by giving the first knowledge of himself to a
child in the world, making him his prophet in the universe. Thus the
Infant-God is recognized and manifested, not by and angel, but by a
child. So his first prophet is a child, just as shortly his first
martyrs will be children.
--Cardinal Pierre de Bérulle
--Cardinal Pierre de Bérulle
Taken from The Catholic Breadbox.
