Saint
Luke tells us that shepherds on a hillside, looking after their sheep,
saw an angel. They were poor, ordinary people. The angel told them
a special baby had been born and they were to find him. We like to
think they took a lamb as a present.
This
angel seems more interested in the sheep-dog than the shepherd!
Jesus
is often called the Lamb of God, because he gave himself up for us all.
Before Jesus came, people used to think God was frightening, and they
offered up to Him animals that had been specially killed. Then Jesus gave
himself once and for all, to show us God loves us.
Here is a poem by William Blake which tells us about this.
Today,
we put the shepherds and lambs into our cribs and added the straw.
The
straw went everywhere! Here are Maggs and Theresa at the end of the line
with our cribs...and Theresa cleaning up!
