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• When God Himself became incarnate in this world, when He assumed our human life, He decided that there would be two symbols that would be representative of His life.
• Those two symbols were the manger and the cross.
  • Both of them are made of wood.
  • On both of them, Our Lord lied down. Our Lady laid Him down in the manger, while the Roman soldiers laid Him down on the Cross.
  • On both of them, Our Lord was bound and in a state of helplessness. In the manger, He was wrapped in swaddling clothes, clothes that confine a baby in such a way that he cannot move. Likewise on the Cross, He could not move, because He was nailed to it.
  • On both of them, Our Lord was in a state of poverty. He laid in a manger in a cave, a place that was not his house, a place that belonged to no one. On ...