“So they hurried away and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in the manger.” Luke 2:16
When God sent His Son into the world, He willed that His Son should be born and be brought up in a family. The Holy Family of the Christ, His Virgin Mother and her pure spouse Joseph was Heaven on earth, an earthly paradise. Within this family the Divinity was pleased to dwell in all Its fulness. God deigned to manifest the glory of this family only to a select few while they lived here on the earth; it was to certain poor shepherds that this great grace was first granted from Heaven.