Feast of the Nativity

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"A devout author says that if Jesus Christ had permitted us to ask him to give us the greatest proof of his love, who would have ventured to ask of him that he should become a child like us, that he should clothe himself with all our miseries, and make himself, of all men, the most poor, the most despised, and the most ill-treated?" 

St. Alphonsus, THE INCARNATION, BIRTH AND INFANCY OF JESUS CHRIST