Everyone loves Christmas, when we celebrate the birth of Christ in Bethlehem. In this meditation we use the Catechism of the Catholic Church and texts of St Josemaria to pray about why God became man and the consequences this has for us. According to the Catechism, God became man for four reasons:

• to save us by reconciling us with God
• so that we might know God’s love
• to be our model of holiness
• to make us partakers of the divine nature