In giving himself in Jesus, this child, the Love of God takes us in the singularity of our existence; the Love of God becomes credible… In this only Son and because there is only one Jesus born in Bethlehem of Judea at a determinate time in history… unique as son of Mary, singular and fragile like every man, like any man, God reveals in just what way he loves us: each and individually, in the singularity of our existence, unique and fragile.
Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger (1926–2007)