[Mad Dawg]

I’m interested in the statement that “Christians” celebrate the Incarnation on the day we celebrate the Nativity. I was just thinking about this yesterday as I prayed the joyful mysteries of the Rosary. The Annunciation seems to me to have a better claim to the date of the Incarnation (whatever the actual date was.) That is, I’d say God became human at the moment of the conception of Jesus, and was already incarnate by the time the Nativity rolled around.

[raynearhood]

I’m interested in the statement that “Christians” celebrate the Incarnation on the day we celebrate the Nativity.

According to reply #5, it would seem that if you want to celebrate Incarnation at the date of conception, then celebrate it on or about......< drumroll >..... December 24.< cymbal >

See that? It all works out.

[annalex]

Yes. The precise moment of Incarnation is recorded history:

And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done to me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her. (Luke 1:38)