The children languished in their cribs. They needed the nurturing that came from being picked up and held, coddled and loved. If there is anything that I find most bizarre in visiting someone who is in jail, it is the fact that there is a separation between visitor and prisoner. There is usually a glass wall. You communicate with a telephone, looking at the person, but no touching, so that contraband cannot be exchanged.
Human beings appreciate what touch is.
So did our God. So did our Lord Jesus Christ. Because He is so wise, He knew touching is important. Hence, in our whole sacramental system, the Lord has a way of physically touching another. When I take a little girl and take water and pour it over her forehead in Baptism, she is touched and the Lord fills her with life, His own life.