Here,
in time, we are celebrating the eternal birth which God the Father bore and
bears unceasingly in eternity, because this same birth is now born in time, in
human nature. St Augustine says: ‘What does it avail me that this birth is
always happening, if it does not happen in me? That it should happen in me is
what matters.’
Meister
Eckhart: Christmas Sermon
So we now come to the moment of the eternal birth of the Word in the
soul. As Geertgen tot sint Jens depicts it in the picture above, it takes place
at night, while all is quiet and still. When we have opened the soul to the
divine then the divine will enter. This we celebrate tonight as the Divine Word
springs down from on high into the simple stable of our mind. As they used to
say in the old newspapers : ‘A Happy Christmas to all Our Readers’. Thank you for
taking the time and trouble to read this and I wish you all a very happy
Christmas wherever you may be or whatever you may be doing. We remember in
particular those in the troubled parts of the world and ask God’s peace
and blessing on them.
Peter
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