THE HUMANITY OF GOD: CHRISTMAS

The Letter to Titus invites us to contemplate the mystery of Christmas as God’s goodness and love (philanthrōpia).

The Vulgate translates the latter term in a brilliant way: God’s love becomes the humanitas Dei.

To describe God’s benevolence it connotes his humanity, not his divinity.
Almost as if to say: our God, the God of Jesus, is “human.” At Christmas, the “human” of God manifests itself in flesh and blood and becomes one of us, in the form of the Eucharist.

Saint Francis captures the Christmas Eucharistic mystery and represents it in the Greccio nativity: the manger becomes the altar where the Gospel is proclaimed and we celebrate the mystery of Jesus who was born, who dies and who rises for us.

La Civiltà Cattolica
Quaderno 4044 pag. 521 - 524Anno 2018Volume IV - 15 dicembre 2018
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