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Hey there, Spouse. Today is Friday, December 24th, 2021. Today is also, of course, Christmas Eve. So I hope that you are excited as I am excited, that if you're going to the evening mass tonight, that you're all ready and prepared to truly celebrate the miracle of Christmas, the incarnation

that God himself humbled himself to become a lowly human being. But he didn't even stop there.

He became an infant, an infant that was rejected before he was even born and sent to a barn

where his mother gave birth and were shepherds, shepherds who were not very well respected during the time of Jesus,

shepherds were sent to greet him.

What an amazing miracle we get to celebrate every year.

What an amazing God we have that he loved us enough to do that for us.

Now we are wrapping up the 10 points from the Summa Theologica from St. Thomas,

based on the writings of St. Augustine,

that lay out why the incarnation is such a big, big, big, big, big deal.

And so we have reasons number 9 and 10 today.

Reason number 9 is because the incarnation

calls us to humility, calls us to humility. All too often through our actions, we tell God,

you know what, I got this. I don't need you, right? I'm not going to turn to you in prayer. I'm not

going to offer you part of my income. I'm not going to worry you with this problem. I'm just going to

take care of it myself. But the incarnation reminds us that we are sinners, that we cannot pay

our own debt for sin, that God does indeed need to come

and rescue us, that he will. And that the way he rescues us is through humility. God does not

come to take on the Romans and lead a war, right? He came to fight Satan. And Satan, he wants us to be proud.

He wants us to be conceited. But God rejects all of that. And he conquers him through humility.

He conquers him by becoming a tiny baby, by being born in a barn, by living in

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