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@RobertEllsberg

@RobertEllsberg

St Francis set up the first Christmas crèche in a cave in Greccio, with live animals and a crib. Those who gazed on this “living Sermon” seemed to behold a living baby. This year in Greccio Pope Francis issued a letter on the meaning of the crèche. bit.ly/2SqYgCI

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@RobertEllsberg

@RobertEllsberg

In it we “feel and touch the poverty that God’s Son took upon himself...it summons us to follow him along the path of humility, poverty and self-denial that leads from the manger of Bethlehem to the cross.

12:16 PM · Dec 25, 2019

@RobertEllsberg

@RobertEllsberg

It asks us to meet him and serve him by showing mercy to those of our brothers and sisters in greatest need (cf. Mt 25:31-46)....

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@RobertEllsberg

@RobertEllsberg

Like Saint Francis, may we open our hearts to this simple grace, so that from our wonderment a humble prayer may arise: a prayer of thanksgiving to God, who wished to share with us his all, and thus never to leave us alone.”

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