Christmas Is a Love Story
In the context of Christmas, words like bride , bridegroom , and spousal might sound abstract or distant. But in fact, Christmas makes them concrete—touchable, visible, human. The birth of Jesus is not only the arrival of a Savior. It is the arrival of the Bridegroom. Jesus is born in Bethlehem , which means House of Bread . He is laid in a manger—a feeding trough. From the very beginning, His body is marked for gift. Scripture captures this with stunning clarity: “A body you have prepared for me.” This body is prepared to be given. What the “Spousal Meaning of the Body” Really Means In the Theology of the Body, the spousal meaning of the body simply means this: The body is made to say, “I give myself to you.” At Christmas, God speaks that sentence not with words, but with flesh. Christ comes to unite Himself to humanity. But the Bride is wounded. Sin has distorted her ability to receive and to give love. She cannot make herself worthy. So the Bridegr...