Recently a friend of mine shared with me this beautiful Legend she had read regarding the herbs and plants of Christ’s Nativity. I hope that you find it interesting too. Father Higgins of Mary Immaculate of Lourdes Parish (Several Christmases ago, I wrote an article about the plants of the manger. I still get asked […]
Our Saviour, dearly Beloved, was born this day. Let us rejoice. Sadness is not becoming upon the Birth Day of Life Itself, which, now that the fear of death is ended, fills us with gladness, because of our own promised immortality. No one is excluded from sharing in this cheerfulness, for the reason of our joy is common to all men. Our Lord, the Conqueror of sin and death, since there was no one free from servitude, came that He might bring deliverance to all.
Pope Leo the Great / Christmas Sermon
