S9E7: The Nativity and the Baby Jesus

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (Sacratissimum Cor Jesu, miserere nobis!), offers prayers for Sparky and his wife and their unborn child. We beg the intercession of St. Gerard, patron of childbirth and pregnancy. Today's reflection is likewise on babies - particularly on the baby Jesus, and what message it sends to us that God elected to come to man as an infant. The supreme hope, and the theological Hope, that the Nativity represents gives us a reflection both on God's gift to us and the way we draw out our Created Nature from our fallen state.