Quote/s of the Day – 24 December – “The Month of the Divine Infancy and the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary” – The Vigil of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ
“Awake, mankind!
For your sake God has become man.
Awake, you who sleep,
rise up from the dead
and Christ will enlighten you.
I tell you again,
for your sake,
God became man.”
St Augustine 354-430)
Father and Doctor of the Church
“Sadness should have no place
on the birthday of Life!
The fear of death has been swallowed up;
Life brings us joy, with the promise of eternal happiness.
No-one is shut out from this joy;
all share the same reason for rejoicing.
Our Lord, Victor over sin and death,
finding no man free from sin,
came to free us all!”
St Pope Leo the Great (400-461)
Father and Doctor of the Church
“O Father, in Thy Truth
(that is to say, in Thy Son,
humbled, needy and homeless)
Thou haste humbled me.
He was humbled in the womb of the Virgin,
needy in the manger of the sheep
and homeless on the wood of the Cross.
Nothing so humbles the proud sinner
as the humility of Jesus Christ’s humanity!”
St Anthony of Padua (1195-1231)
Doctor of the Church
“Let us consider the Eternal Father’s goodness.
Had He so desired, He could have created His Son’s humanity
as He did that of our first parents,
or even given Him an angelic nature,
for it was in His power to do so.
Had He willed to do so,
Our Lord would not have been of our nature.
We would not then have had any alliance with Him.
But His goodness was such,
that He made Himself our brother,
in order that He might, both give us an example
[Rom 8:29; Heb 2:11-17]
and render us sharers in His glory.
It was for this reason that He willed to be of Abraham’s seed,
for the most holy Virgin was indeed, of Abraham’s race,
for it is said of her: Abraham and his seed.
[Lk 1:55; Rom 1:3; Gal 3:16].”
St Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Doctor of the Church
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