Stained Glass Nativity by ArtFriar on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

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"And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn." (Lk 2:7)

An Advent meditation of sorts, on the coming of Christ, now completed (and timelapsed) for this day upon which the joy of our expectation of God-made-man is celebrated.

Once again, it is a great joy to find this hobby of mine in the tradition started by St Francis in Greccio in 1223.

It is an image I will not tire of revisiting because it is both humanity's embrace of God as well as God's gracious visitation upon humanity that is perhaps too profound to fully make sense of in any other way, other than in the joy of a mother and father beholding their child.

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