In honour of Christmas and the Incarnation

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Since Christmas is drawing near, I would like to invite all those from both East and West to post an oration, hymn, collect, prayer, saying from a Church Father, whatever, in honour of this feast and that most sublime mystery- the Incarnation. :bowdown2:
 
**Today the Lord is born, the life and salvation of mankind; today a reconciliation is made of Divinity to humanity, and of humanity to Divinity; today all creation has leapt for joy; those above sent toward those below; and those below towards those above; today occurred the death of darkness and the life of humanity; today a way was made toward God for man and a way for God into the soul. **

St. Macarius the Great
 
He who sits at the right hand of the Father goes without shelter at the inn, that He may for us prepare many mansions in the house of His heavenly Father … He was born, not in the house of His parents, but at the inn, by the wayside, because through the mystery of the Incarnation He is become the Way, by which He guides us to our home .

Venerable Bede
 
**Joseph was amazed as he saw what was supernatural. He understood, O Virgin, the rain upon the fleece in thy conception without seed. And he understood the bush that burned without fire and was unconsumed, and Aaron’s rod, which blossomed. Indeed, thy betrothed and guardian cried out to the priests: "A virgin gives birth, and after the birth remains a virgin. **

The Kontakia of Romanos
 
**Think not, therefore, it is of small things thou art hearing, when thou hearest of this birth, but rouse up thy mind, and straightway tremble, being told that God hath come upon earth. For so marvelous was this, and beyond expectation, that because of these things the very angels formed a choir, and in behalf of the world offered up their praise for them, and the prophets from the first were amazed at this, that “He was seen upon earth, and conversed with men.” Yea, for it is far beyond all thought to hear that God the Unspeakable, the Unutterable, the Incomprehensible, and He that is equal to the Father, hath passed through a virgin’s womb, and hath vouchsafed to be born of a woman, and to have Abraham and David for forefathers. **

St John** Chrysostom**
 
A meditation on the Third Decade of the Holy Rosary by St. Louis de Montfort:

We offer Thee, O Child Jesus, this third decade in honor of Thy Blessed Nativity, and we ask of Thee through this mystery and through the intercession of Thy Blessed Mother, detachment from things of this world, love of poverty and love of the poor. Grace of the mystery of the Nativity come down into my soul and make me truly poor in spirit.
 
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