” The Son of God, to show us an example, came to humble Himself with an abjection the most admirable which not only can be, but can even be thought of; for you see the God of all Majesty, as it were forgetting and annihilating this supreme and adorable greatness, came to make Himself a little child in the womb of one of His creatures.
I would greatly desire that we should imprint in our hearts this love of humbling ourselves unto nothing in all things in which Our Lord humbled Himself..principally in honor, esteem, in the desire of being preferred, to be accounted virtuous, which must all be destroyed in us in imitation of the self-abasement of the Son of God.”
St. Jane de Chantal, Exhortation 111
Nativity