Anyone wishing to enter the place of Jesus' birth has to bend down. It
seems to me that a deeper truth is revealed here, which should touch our
hearts on this holy night: if we want to find the God who appeared as a
child, then we must dismount from the high horse of our "enlightened"
reason. We must set aside our false certainties, our intellectual pride,
which prevents us from recognizing God's closeness. We must follow the
interior path of Saint Francis the path leading to that ultimate outward
and inward simplicity which enables the heart to see. We must bend
down, spiritually we must as it were go on foot, in order to pass
through the portal of faith and encounter the God who is so different
from our prejudices and opinions than the God who conceals himself in
the humility of a newborn baby.
--Pope Benedict XVI, Christmas Homily 2011
Taken from The Catholic Breadbox.
--Pope Benedict XVI, Christmas Homily 2011
Taken from The Catholic Breadbox.
