Daily Reflection

“When You, O Lord were baptized in the Jordan / The worship of the Trinity was revealed, /

“But take heed to yourselves/watch yourselves (βλέπετε…ἑαυτούς); for they will deliver you up to councils; and you will

”For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a

“Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him. John would have

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He

“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it

“I behold a strange and paradoxical (παράδοξον) mystery: the cave (is as) heaven; a Virgin – the cherubic

“Today the Virgin comes to the cave / to give birth to the Eternal Word. / Hear the

“And you, Bethleem, house of Ephratha, are few in number to be reckoned among the thousands of Juda;

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