{"id":1395983,"date":"2018-12-25T10:16:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T16:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atxcatholic.com\/?p=1395983"},"modified":"2018-12-25T10:28:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T16:28:08","slug":"a-small-christmas-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atxcatholic.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/a-small-christmas-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"A “Small” Christmas Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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On instagram @rachelisag<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Merry Christmas dear readers! May you be drawn this Christmas into the humility and smallness of the Christ Child – for our world is hungry for hearts that are uncomplicated and open, humble and warm. Let us make a home for others in our hearts this Christmas, through the grace of smallness that the God-Made-Man brings to each of us on this blessed day. In the words of our former Holy Father:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God\u2019s sign is simplicity. God\u2019s sign is the baby. God\u2019s sign is that he makes himself small for us.<\/strong> This is how he reigns. He does not come with power and outward splendour. He comes as a baby \u2013 defenceless and in need of our help. He does not want to overwhelm us with his strength. He takes away our fear of his greatness. He asks for our love: so he makes himself a child. He wants nothing other from us than our love, through which we spontaneously learn to enter into his feelings, his thoughts and his will \u2013 we learn to live with him and to practise with him that humility of renunciation that belongs to the very essence of love. God made himself small so that we could understand him, welcome him, and love him (…More here<\/a>).<\/p>Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Midnight Mass 2006<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A Small Christmas Poem<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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A very merry Christmas to you and yours! God bless!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On instagram @rachelelisag, Marian Shrine of Our Lady of Schoenstatt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Merry Christmas dear readers! May you be drawn this Christmas into the humility and smallness of the Christ Child – for our world is hungry for hearts that are uncomplicated and open, humble and warm. Let us make a home for others in our hearts this Christmas, through the grace of smallness that the God-Made-Man… [Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1395983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-blog","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t