Last week I wrote of how the nativity scene in Bethlehem sums up and celebrates the pro-life cause, illustrating the great dignity of the human person. Just as the Christ child, young and helpless, contains the fullness of the Godhead, so every human child is made in the image of that same God. Human dignity is not earned, it is baked into our very nature, the nature that God Himself chose to assume.
There is, however, another aspect of the nativity scene that always strikes me. And that is what I might call the extraordinary ordinariness of the scene. Now, it might seem paradoxical to call something “extraordinarily ordinary.” But that is how it seems to me: as if God chose to come into the world in a way that so ostentatiously unassertive, so remarkably unremarkable, so absurdly hidden and by-the-way, that we could not help but notice just how ordinary the whole thing was.
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Sincerely yours in Christ, 
Father Shenan J. Boquet
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