O magnum mysterium
et admirabile sacramentum,
ut animalia viderent Dominum natum,
jacentem in præsepio.
Beata virgo, cujus viscera meruerunt
portare Dominum Christum, Alleluia!
Translation:
O great mystery
and wondrous sacrament,
that animals should see the newborn Lord
lying in their manger.
Blessed is the Virgin whose womb was worthy
to bear the Lord Jesus Christ. Alleluia!
I am so thankful that the same God who created every mystery of the universe chose to come to Earth in the form of an innocent, pure, totally helpless human babe…
O Great Mystery… why should I be considered? What love you must have Father to come for us.
And wondrous sacrament… The sacred nature of that moment thousands of years ago under the star leaves me breathless at the birth of my forgiveness..love for us… and grace to save us… the Divine Power of that moment when you entered this world… the same God who created everything without beginning and without end…
That animals should see the newborn Lord… When I look at the stars in the Milky Way I get just a glimpse through a glass darkly of your magnificence…and you chose to be born in a manger… your birth attended by blessed animals… That the God of the Universe should choose to be born in the most humble of places… where animals sleep…
Lying in their manger… the most humble of places… in a cave really… my Father you were homeless, poor, without any help, any resource… looked upon by the animals you chose to be around you… from the mystery of what Heaven must be to the lowest of places on Earth…
Blessed is the Virgin whose womb was worthy to bear the Lord Jesus Christ… and you chose an innocent to bear you… one whose humility… one whose virtue… one whose faith… must have been as great as any human before or after… the one you deemed suitable to bring you from the eternal to the mortal… to grow your mortal body… capable of pain… capable of death… capable of bringing us back to God through your death… and then the body resurrected … O Magnum Mysterium… as we will someday be resurrected…
Oh Father… who are we… no, who am I that I deserve this… that the God of the Universe… eternal and forever… would come into this world of pain, this world of trouble to give all for me… for us…
Alleluia… 10,000 praises… not enough to even begin to touch the praise we owe to you…
That is the true miracle of Christmas… that you came from what Heaven must be to what we are…
So that we could live eternally with you…
O Magnum Mysterium…
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