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My soul magnifies the Lord Reflections on the Nativity Gospels (11) Luke 1:39-56 Two humble women, both with child, meet in a town in the hills of Judea, and nothing less than the change of the ages is underway. The elder woman, who had long been barren, greets the...
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‘Hail Mary, Full of Grace, the Lord is with you’ Reflections on the Nativity Gospels (10) Luke 1:26-38 As an angel announces to the priest Zachariah that his wife Elizabeth would bear John the Baptist, we are brought to the very cusp of the appearance of...
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‘Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will name him John’ Reflections on the Nativity Gospels (9) Luke 1:5-25 One of the most esteemed icons in the Orthodox Church depicts Christ in his majesty as Pantocrator (ruler of the universe), and flanked by the...
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‘Out of Egypt I have called my Son’ Reflections on the Nativity Gospels (8) Matt. 2:13-23 The infant Jesus faced a devious and savage enemy in King Herod of Judea, who plotted to slay the child as a perceived rival. This vicious tyrant thus brought about the massacre...
