Illustration by Frank Kacmarcik, OblSB, Saint John's Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota. Used with permission.
A Bittersweet Birth
This Christmas Octave is considered one extended Christmas Day. It serves to prepare us for the Christian life and readies us for the upset, clash, and clang ignited by the Lord God, who through the cooperation of a young woman, deigned to take on human flesh.
