The Nativity and the Passion

[YHWH_Christ]

The two most important events in the life of Jesus: His birth and his death. That vulnerable little babe in a manger would be destined for the falling and rising of many in Israel. In the Nativity there is a glimmer of the Passion, and in the Passion a glimmer of the Nativity, for Christ the God-Man was born for the very reason that in his death he would defeat death. Merry Christmas everybody.

 

[Vico]

The two most important events in the life of Jesus: His birth and his death. That vulnerable little babe in a manger would be destined for the falling and rising of many in Israel. In the Nativity there is a glimmer of the Passion, and in the Passion a glimmer of the Nativity, for Christ the God-Man was born for the very reason that in his death he would defeat death. Merry Christmas everybody.

Have you noticed that Friday of the Passion of the Lord (Good Friday) is not a solemnity, but that Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord is?

Catechism

512 Concerning Christ’s life the Creed speaks only about the mysteries of the Incarnation (conception and birth) and Paschal mystery (passion, crucifixion, death, burial, descent into hell, resurrection and ascension). It says nothing explicitly about the mysteries of Jesus’ hidden or public life, but the articles of faith concerning his Incarnation and Passover do shed light on the whole of his earthly life. “All that Jesus did and taught, from the beginning until the day when he was taken up to heaven”,171 is to be seen in the light of the mysteries of Christmas and Easter.

652 Christ’s Resurrection is the fulfilment of the promises both of the Old Testament and of Jesus himself during his earthly life.521 The phrase "in accordance with the Scriptures"522 indicates that Christ’s Resurrection fulfilled these predictions.