"Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high, who looks far down upon the heavens and the earth?" (Ps 113[112], 5ff.)
God dwells on high, yet he stoops down to us...
He stoops down -- he himself comes down as a child to the lowly stable, the symbol of all humanity's neediness and forsakenness. He becomes a child and puts himself in the state of complete dependence typical of a newborn child. The Creator who holds all things in his hands, on whom we all depend, makes himself small and in need of human love.
For nothing can be more sublime, nothing greater than the love which thus stoops down, descends, becomes dependent.
(Excerpts from the homily of Pope Benedict XVI on Christmas Day)
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