Advent is Waiting for the Grand Miracle

The great English writer and convert to the Catholic Faith once wrote: “The Christian story is precisely the story of one great miracle, the Christian assertion being that what is beyond all space and time, what is uncreated, eternal, came into nature, into human nature, descended into his own universe, and rose again, bringing nature up with Him. It is precisely one great miracle. If you take that away there is nothing specifically Christian left.”(God in the Dock, p. 80.).

C.S. Lewis loved the story of the birth of Christ, the Christmas story in popular language. Being a philosopher who argued his way to become a Catholic, he maintained that the one Great Miracle of Christianity is not the Crucifixion or the Resurrection, but Christ’s birth. For him every miracle in the Holy Bible prepares for, demontrates or results from the Incarnation. But what is a miracle?

Lewis defines miracle as “an interference with Nature by supernatural power.” So God really interferes in our world. Why? To make us one with Him by Him becoming one of us – His Grand Miracle

One writer wrote beautifully, “with the birth of Jesus, God became visible in a tiny body for a mother to behold, for shepherds to admire, for magi to worship. He Himself was the miracle!”

During this beautiful season of Advent let us ask the Good Lord to give us a new appreciation of the Grand Miracle, His coming to Earth.