The antiphon above, with which Catholics and some other Christians will begin their worship today, is an important one. Consisting of words drawn from Paul’s letter to the Philippians and the 85th Psalm, it addresses a big need that many feel during the season of Advent, in which Christians are supposed to be preparing joyfully for the glorious celebration of one of the greatest mysteries in Christian faith: that God, who knows no limits, became one of the human race, limited as we are.
Nor did He do so only as an adult. No, like all of us, He started out as a tiny one in the womb of a mother and was born, small and weak. G.K. Chesterton marveled that “the hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle.”
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