From the Gospel according to Luke (Lk 2, 11-14)
In those days a decree from Caesar Augustus that a census should be of the whole earth. This was the first enrollment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria. All went to be census, each in their own city.
Even Joseph, the Galilee, the city of Nazareth, he went up to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he belonged to the house and family of David. Census was to be with Mary, his betrothed, who was pregnant.
While they were there, the time came for her to be delivered. She gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the apartment.
There were some shepherds in that region stay open, watched all night keeping guard over their flock. An angel of the Lord appeared to them and the glory of the Lord shone around them. They were terrified, but the angel said unto them, Fear not: behold, I announce with great joy, which shall be to all people: in the city of David, is born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. This sign for you: you will find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. "
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying
"Glory to God in the highest heaven and on earth peace
to those whom he favors.
In those days a decree from Caesar Augustus that a census should be of the whole earth. This was the first enrollment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria. All went to be census, each in their own city.
Even Joseph, the Galilee, the city of Nazareth, he went up to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he belonged to the house and family of David. Census was to be with Mary, his betrothed, who was pregnant.
While they were there, the time came for her to be delivered. She gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the apartment.
There were some shepherds in that region stay open, watched all night keeping guard over their flock. An angel of the Lord appeared to them and the glory of the Lord shone around them. They were terrified, but the angel said unto them, Fear not: behold, I announce with great joy, which shall be to all people: in the city of David, is born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. This sign for you: you will find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. "
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying
"Glory to God in the highest heaven and on earth peace
to those whom he favors.
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Comment
"Be not afraid, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people: to you is born in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord. This sign for you: you will find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. " Only
contemplation can simplify our prayer to get to see the depth of the scene and the sign that we are given.
A manger, a child, in contemplation of Mary, Joseph thoughtfully: "Truly you are a God." The Father, who alone knows the Son, grant us to recognize that the love and imitate him.
No external apparatus, no consideration, in the village everything is indifferent. Only a few shepherds, outcasts from society ...
And all this is deliberate: "He chose poverty, nakedness.
He despised the light of men, the one that comes from wealth, splendor, social condition. " No equipment, no external splendor.
Yet he is the Word who became flesh, covered with a light body. He is in the world that he constantly creates, but it is hidden. Because it wants to appear only in secret?
He had hitherto, in the words of Nicolas Cabasilas, a king in exile, without a foreign city, and here he returns to his home. For the land, before being the land of men, is the land of God, returning, found this land created da lui e per lui.
“Dio si è fatto portatore di carne perché l’uomo possa divenire portatore di Spirito”,
dice Atanasio di Alessandria.
“Il suo amore per me ha umiliato la sua grandezza.
Si è fatto simile a me perché io lo accolga.
Si è fatto simile a me perché io lo rivesta”
(Cantico di Salomone).
Per capire, io devo ascoltare lui che mi dice:
“Per toccarmi, lasciate i vostri bisturi...
Per vedermi, lasciate i vostri sistemi di televisione...
Per sentire le pulsazioni del divino nel mondo, non
prendete strumenti di precisione...
Per leggere le Scritture, lasciate la critica...
Per gustarmi, lasciate la vostra sensibilità...”
(Pierre Mounier).
Ma credete e adorate.
contemplation can simplify our prayer to get to see the depth of the scene and the sign that we are given.
A manger, a child, in contemplation of Mary, Joseph thoughtfully: "Truly you are a God." The Father, who alone knows the Son, grant us to recognize that the love and imitate him.
No external apparatus, no consideration, in the village everything is indifferent. Only a few shepherds, outcasts from society ...
And all this is deliberate: "He chose poverty, nakedness.
He despised the light of men, the one that comes from wealth, splendor, social condition. " No equipment, no external splendor.
Yet he is the Word who became flesh, covered with a light body. He is in the world that he constantly creates, but it is hidden. Because it wants to appear only in secret?
He had hitherto, in the words of Nicolas Cabasilas, a king in exile, without a foreign city, and here he returns to his home. For the land, before being the land of men, is the land of God, returning, found this land created da lui e per lui.
“Dio si è fatto portatore di carne perché l’uomo possa divenire portatore di Spirito”,
dice Atanasio di Alessandria.
“Il suo amore per me ha umiliato la sua grandezza.
Si è fatto simile a me perché io lo accolga.
Si è fatto simile a me perché io lo rivesta”
(Cantico di Salomone).
Per capire, io devo ascoltare lui che mi dice:
“Per toccarmi, lasciate i vostri bisturi...
Per vedermi, lasciate i vostri sistemi di televisione...
Per sentire le pulsazioni del divino nel mondo, non
prendete strumenti di precisione...
Per leggere le Scritture, lasciate la critica...
Per gustarmi, lasciate la vostra sensibilità...”
(Pierre Mounier).
Ma credete e adorate.
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