Christ child
Proper noun
Meaning
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the Christ child
(Christianity) the child Jesus
Christ Child
Alternative spelling of Christ child
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Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that's set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God's gift of the Christ child.
At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed.
When the icon arrived in Constantinople it was fitted in as the head into a very large rectangular icon of her holding the Christ child and it is this composite icon that became the one historically known as the Hodegetria.
Sister Dee Myers, BVM, celebrating 60, offered the reflection after Communion, a personal story of her vocation which she linked back to her infanthood when her parish chose her to represent the Christ child as a “live baby” in the church crèche.
Several legends about the icon offer theories about the coloring of Mary and the Christ child in the image.