We Are Standing Before the Crib
Karl Rahner on the Meaning of Christmas
“So this is how we stand before the crib of Jesus; the stable and the cattle in it do not surprise us… There, in that crib, someone starts to be a human being…
“This child fares like us: it is there without having been consulted. But there is a difference between the child and us. We are tempted to experience this inexorable necessity to be, the fact th…
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