COVER STORY The first Christmas: a birth that set fire to men’s hearts
For Christians, Christmas is more than a festive season, or the occasion for an exchange of gifts. It remains the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, the moment when God humbled himself to be born as man, to share our humanity so that we might share his divinity. This mystery is one which has occupied many of the greatest minds of all time: yet is accessible to little children who can understand the story of Jesus’ birth in a stable surrounded by farm animals, because there was no room for the Holy Family in the inn. What we know…