Christmas Wisdom with St Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
28 December – The Fourth Day of the Christmas Octave
Jesus is nourished at His Mother’s breast
“Consider that Jesus, as soon as He was swathed, looked for and took milk from the breast of Mary. What a spectacle it must have been to those in Paradise to witness the divine Word, who had become an infant, sucking milk from a virgin who was His own creature! Sister Paula, the Camaldolese, in contemplating a little image of Jesus taking milk, felt herself immediately inflamed with a tender love for God, with great wonder and awe at His humility. O my Jesus, permit me to join my voice with the voice of the women in the gospel who proclaimed, “blessed to the womb that bore you and the breasts that fed you.”
Scripture
“…In these last days he has spoken to us by a Son,
whom he appointed the heir of all things,
through whom also he created the world.
…And again, when he brings the first-born into the world, he says,
“Let all God’s angels worship him.”
Hebrews 1:2,6
Prayer (St Alphonsus)
“My beloved Jesus,
You are the bread of angels
and my bread of eternal life.
Grant me a tender devotion
to Your holy Infancy,
so that I may forget everything else
for love of this tender Child
and think of nothing but You.
Amen”
AnaStpaul 