Daily Reflection

“O people, let us celebrate the Forefeast of Christ’s Nativity! Let us raise our minds on high, as

“In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. This

”Take care, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall

“But he said to him, ‘A man once gave a great banquet, and invited (ἐκάλεσεν) many; and at

“Now the serpent was more subtle than any other wild creature that the Lord God had made. He

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or

“Seeing the entrance of the pure one, angels marveled in wonder how the Virgin could enter the holy

“For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with

“The next day again John was standing with two of his disciples; and he looked at Jesus as

“Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And there was a woman who