{"id":185418,"date":"2025-12-24T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/?p=185418&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=185418"},"modified":"2025-12-12T13:48:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T18:48:31","slug":"day-25-heavens-smallness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/day-25-heavens-smallness\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 25: Heaven\u2019s Smallness"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"185418\" class=\"elementor elementor-185418\" 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. 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If we could stand there with Mary and Joseph, we\u2019d see simplicity\u2014straw, swaddling clothes, a child. True God, true baby. God closer to me than I am to myself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St. John Henry Newman writes: \u201cThere is but one right way; it is the way in which God looks at the world. Aim at seeing things as God sees them\u2026 Aim at \u2018seeing the King in His beauty.\u2019 \u2026 It is not an easy thing to learn that new language which Christ has brought us\u2026 He has brought us a religion which sheds a new light on all that happens. Try to learn this language.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Almighty becomes small so we can hold and understand him. Tonight, we find: reverence for the ordinary, tenderness for the weak, joy that is peace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let us pray: \u201cCome, Lord Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Reflect: Where in your life is God calling you to greater intimacy? 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