This Birth Perfectly Reflects the Messiah's Condition

Mary did not know how her child would be born, but she must have sensed that this birth would reflect the Messiah's condition: glorious in some aspects, and yet common, hidden and earthly in its other aspects. The incident of the grotto was probably not the humiliation for Mary, as it seems to be for us, since at that time in Nazareth peasants also built their homes in natural caves. But birth represents a major event for a mother: with it, the past is history and a life story begins. And in the case Mary and Jesus, what a past! What a life story!