Sacred Questions At ChristmasSample

A SON IN A MOTHER'S WOMB

A Prayer to Open

Here I am, Lord,

in my tired, aging, hurting, wondrous body.

Open my heart to you now.

You are my High Priest who knows.

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Reflect

One of the hardest realities for us to grasp is that God made himself nothing and took on the form of a human. And he didn’t start as a strong young man in his twenties. He started where we all start: helpless in his mother’s womb. The story of Christmas begins with the story of a baby in a womb.

• What words and images come to mind when you think of a human baby growing within a woman’s womb?
• Reflect on the reality that God came to be with us by being grown and nourished in a woman’s womb, just as all human babies are. What does this truth reveal to you about his love? 
• How does the fact that Jesus was formed in Mary’s womb reveal the sacredness God sees and the value he places on the human body?

Respond

Jesus Christ—

Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace;

the one through whom and for whom all things were made; and

the one in whom I live and move and have my being—

became flesh and made your dwelling among us. 

And nothing—neither death nor life, angels nor demons, the present nor the future; not any powers, height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation—can separate me from the love of our God, which is in you, Jesus Christ my Lord.