Above: Adoration of the Shepherds by Dutch painter Matthias Stom, c. 1650. Everything is Mystery in this holy season. The Word of God, whose generation is before the day-star [Ps. cix. 3], is born in time – a Child is God – a Virgin becomes a Mother, and remains a Virgin – things divine are commingled with those that are human – and the sublime, the ineffable antithesis…
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