"Children do not inspire terror or aversion, but attachment and love," says St. Peter Chrysologus. It seems that children know not how to be angry; and if perchance at odd times they should be irritated, they are easily soothed; one has only to give them a fruit, a flower, or bestow on them a caress, or utter a kind word to them, and they have already forgiven and forgotten every offence.
A tear of repentance, one act of heart-felt contrition, is enough to appease the
Infant Jesus. "You know the tempers of children," pursues St. Thomas of
Villanova; "a single tear pacifies them, the offence is forgotten. Approach,
then, to Him while he is a little one, while he would seem to have forgotten his
majesty." He has put off his divine majesty, and appears as a child to inspire
us with more courage to approach his feet.
"The Incarnation Birth and Infancy of Jesus Christ" covers everything that the title implies. Consoling lessons about Jesus' childhood and His love for us; how He suffered for us from the moment of His conception. Included are novenas, prayers and meditations with 14 pages devoted to the Holy Name of Jesus. Absolutely sublime reading for Advent and the Christmas season.