{"id":185417,"date":"2025-12-22T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/?p=185417&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=185417"},"modified":"2025-12-12T13:43:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T18:43:57","slug":"day-23-at-the-manger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/day-23-at-the-manger\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 23: At the Manger"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"185417\" class=\"elementor elementor-185417\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fb56fd8 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"fb56fd8\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0084849 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0084849\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>Advent with St. John Henry Newman<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><em>Reflections by Fr. Jason Smith, LC<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-eee2a61 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"eee2a61\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9547301 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"9547301\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<iframe class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?si=p0hp0mpSYLb--OVJ&amp;list=PLlcJliGfwMk_TyttcgDq1rBYwnfgQkcFG&enablejsapi=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"  title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-57d6b19 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"57d6b19\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5260d46 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5260d46\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each Christmas we do exactly what the shepherds did: we look at a newborn laid on straw and make an act of faith. Tiny, gurgling, maybe crying\u2014His little fingers hardly big enough to wrap around our pinky. True God, true baby.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St. John Henry Newman writes: \u201cGod revealed Himself visibly to Jacob, to Job, to Moses\u2026 to us He reveals Himself not visibly, but more wonderfully and truly; not without the cooperation of our own will, but upon our faith\u2026 [that] Christ may dwell in [our] hearts by faith, and that the eyes of [our] understanding may be enlightened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If by grace we were whisked back to Bethlehem, we\u2019d be struck by how ordinary it all is\u2014especially Jesus. No halo. Less hair than our nativity figurine. He does what babies do. And here\u2019s the shock: God has immersed Himself fully in what it means to be an infant. The miracle is not only that God became man, but that he fashioned us in such a way that he could become one of us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Advent readies our eyes for this kind of seeing. Faith doesn\u2019t only look beyond the ordinary, it discovers the glory inside it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let us pray, as the shepherds did, kneeling before mystery: \u201cCome, Lord Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Reflect: What part of your life feels too small, too messy, or too ordinary to offer to God? 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